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The Oxford Guide to British Women Writersby Joanne Shattock
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 40.00This introduction to British women's writing, from the earliest times to the present day, ranges across novelists, poets, playwrights, historians, scientists and translators. It covers, in an A-Z sequence, the lives and works of 400 writers in detail. more...
Her Own Lifeby Elspeth Graham; Hilary Hind; Elaine Hobby; Helen Wilcox
Routledge 1989; US$ 39.95This collection contains substantial extracts from the work of twelve seventeenth-century women from different walks of life, writing in a variety of forms covering an enormous range of topics including violence, travel, children and God. more...
'Improper' Feminineby Lyn Pykett
Routledge 1992; US$ 115.00The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the `proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda. more...
Her Own Womanby Diane Jacobs
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 18.99Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages -- poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the stigma of being unmarried in a man's world. Her life changed when Thomas Paine's publisher, Joseph Johnson, determined to make her a writer. Wollstonecraft's great feminist document, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which brought her fame throughout Europe, insisted that women reap all the new liberties men were celebrating since the fall of the Bastille in France. Wollstonecraft lived as fully as a man would, socializing with the great painters, poets, and revolutionaries of her... more...
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760by Clare Brant; Diane Purkiss
Routledge 1992; US$ 43.95The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended. more...
Writing Englishness: An Introductory Sourcebookby Judy Giles; Tim Middleton
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95What did it mean in the first half of this century to say `I am English'? This is a unique collection of extracts from 1900-1950, all of which raise this question. Draws on a range of poems, fiction, letters, diaries and journalism. more...
Secret Sexualitiesby Ian McCormick
Routledge 1997; US$ 41.95Expansive in its historical range, vast sources and scholarly research, it contains rare, unpublished, primary material and refuses to discriminate between issues of sex, sexuality and gender. more...
Recreating Jane Austenby John Wiltshire
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen's work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen's novels, John Wiltshire examines how her work has been 'recreated' in another age and medium. more...
The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800by Stephen Bending; Andrew McRae
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 165.00Highlighting the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labour, this volume documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolfby Jane Goldman
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, covering the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field. more...









