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Domesticity and Design in American Women?s Lives and Literature
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00Domesticity and Design in American Women?s Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home, relocating frequently... more...
Romance Readers and Romance Writers
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Green's most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contemporaries. more...
The Private History of the Court of England
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 75.00Whilst an important and under-researched example of women's writing, scholars of Romanticism and the nineteenth century will also find much value in this challenging political satire. more...
American Women in Gilded Age London
UPF 2006; US$ 34.95An illuminating study of American women--active in politics and the arts--who lived and worked in England in times of adventure and trauma. more...
Time to Be in Earnest
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 11.65In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P.D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, 'a time to be in earnest', as Dr Johnson said at the comparable moment of his very different life two centuries ago. In recording the events, thoughts and reflections of her present, Baroness James... more...
A Jury of Her Peers
Little, Brown Book Group 2009; Not AvailableFascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O?Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult. And also many successful and acclaimed... more...
Edith Wharton
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton. more...
Jane's Fame
Canongate Books 2007; US$ 10.82Award-winning biographer Claire Harman traces the growth of Jane Austen?s fame, the changing status of her work and what it has stood for - or has been made to stand for in English culture - in a wide-ranging study aimed at the general reader. This is a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising... more...
The Heroine's Bookshelf
HarperCollins 2010; Not AvailableA testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore?s exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today?s women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters?including Anne Shirley, Jo March, Scarlett... more...









