num_pages: 247
description: "For there she was" is how Virginia Woolf concludes Mrs. Dalloway . In introducing a dozen essays examining women's literary history chronologically starting with Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book (1671), Binhammer (English, U. of Alberta) and Wood (PhD, English, York U.) overview feminist literary historiography. Based on the Orlando Project on the history of women's writing in the British Isles, papers stress relational and comparative models for reading women's writing, responses to such writing, and the theme of inclusion/ exclusion. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Women And Literary History: For There She Was
titlecomplete: Women And Literary History: For There She Was
publisher: University of Delaware Press