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Virginia Woolf Selected Essays
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 8.99This selection brings together thirty of Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing and reading, the role and reputation of women writers, the art of biography, and the London scene. They are enchanting in their own right, and indispensable to an understanding of this great writer. - ;'A good essay must draw its curtain... more...
The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 110.00Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey, together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, nurtured the talents of many exceptional women writers. While examining the lives and works of Caroline Bowles, Maria Gowen Brooks, Sara Coleridge, and Maria Jane Jewsbury, Low also contributes... more...
Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate. more...
Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions. more...
Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 19.95Whether you've read Jane Austen once or read her yearly, or if you simply yearn to be Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy, this new Bedside Companion will make a perfect match. Janeite and newcomer alike will revel in the entertaining capsules of each of Austen's beloved novel s, along with information on such important subjects... more...
Middle Class Writing in Late Medieval London
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature. more...
Women and Literature in Britain 18001900
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 33.00These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. more...
The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00Betty A. Schellenberg challenges oversimplified assumptions of women's cultural role in the period. more...
Women and Literature in Britain, 11501500
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 27.00This book investigates women's literacy, authorship and patronage, and their representation in literature in medieval Britain. more...
The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless made significant contributions to intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through various forms of literary discourse, women attempted to engage with scientific ideas. These women, too, were female pioneers in science, and are vitally... more...









