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An employee sorts the shelves inside The Second Shelf bookshop in central London on March 6, 2019. - The Second Shelf a bookshop and literary quarterly, to value, curate and increase the visibility of women's writing and contributions throughout history. A. N. Devers, author and rare book dealer, launched The Second Shelf after noticing a gender inequality in the rare book trade, where the majority of dealers and collectors are men. This, she says, leads to the contribution of women writers to be minimised -- with books by female authors more inexpensive and underrepresented on the shelves. "Women tend to fade out by the time they're older, they tend to be forgotten and overlooked in their older age as writers and by the time they die it's really difficult for them to, sort of, be remembered", she says. The shelves inside The Second Shelf in central London's shopping district are therefore stacked with antiquarian books, modern first editions, manuscripts, and rediscovered works by women authors. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)