Read this only if you genuinely care. Very dense and not a quick read. Assumes full familiarity with the complete works of at least Austen/Brontës/Mary Shelley/George Eliot/Dickinson. Wikipedia will need to be open especially if you have not read all authors mentioned. Gets a bit too Freudian for my taste at the beginning. All that said, amazing book that taught me so much and I feel so much solidarity with the lineage that female authorship has. And you could skip around to what you do care about/have read.