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1.

British Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960 » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 196 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Modern British Women Writers: An A-To-Z Guide » Read Now
by Del Ivan Janik, Vicki K. Janik, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 428 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries...
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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta.
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Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 » Read Now
by Angela Ingram, Daphine Patai. 320 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...FORGOTTEN RADICALS BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS, 1889-1939 The University...Rediscovering forgotten radicals: British women writers, 1889-1939 / edited by...
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Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers » Read Now
by Kathy Mezei. 286 pgs.

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...Feminist Narratology British Women Writers edited by kathy mezei...feminist narratology and British women writers / edited by Kathy Mezei...texts. In their selection of...
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Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837 » Read Now
by Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner. 336 pgs.

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...Re-Visioning Romanticism British Women Writers, 1776-1837 edited by...Re-visioning romanticism: British women writers, 1776-1837 / edited by...Meridian Anthology of Early...
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Virtue's Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction » Read Now
by April Alliston. 322 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Challenging current notions of the transmission of a literary tradition, this study recontextualises the works of neglected eighteenth-century women writers.
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Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World » Read Now
by Rhoda B. Nathan. 276 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of womens rights and women writers might have moved Dickinson...public encouragement of women writers; even more crucial are...National Review , North British Review , and...
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Faith of a Woman Writer » Read Now
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien. 358 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34...
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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.
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The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies » Read Now
by Sara Heller Mendelson. 240 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Most subsequent writers have looked at seventeenth-century...include the study of women as well as other...income. Indeed some writers have questioned...seventeenth-century...
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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings » Read Now
by Angela Keane. 200 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national...
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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation.
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