I did learn about famous women authors and their lives, but overall this wasn't the book for me. The author argues that each of the women discussed in the book got something out of the unhealthy relationship(s) they had with famous male authors, which is fair - generally people do get something out of relationships, at least at the beginning. However, the arguments weren't particularly compelling and often seemed speculative - not necessarily in a bad way, but in a sort of literary-dissertation way, which is not what I was looking for. 

This part is not on the author, but the book was also very poorly copy-edited/designed. I saw at least one punctuation mark in the middle of a word, and the spacing between words/punctuation was often weird.