Title: Modernist voyages : colonial women writers in London, 1890-1945 /
Authors: Snaith, Anna
Year: 2014
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English) Women authors History and criticism.; Women travelers England London Biography History and criticism.; English literature History and criticism; English literature History and criticism; Imperialism in literature.; Decolonization in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Modernism (Literature) England; London (England) Intellectual life; London (England) Intellectual life; London (England) Intellectual life; London (England) Intellectual life; London (England) In literature.
Contents: Introduction -- Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and from man to man -- Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics -- Sara Jeannette Duncan: a Canadian girl in London -- Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines -- Jean Rhys: 'a savage from the Cannibal Islands' -- Una Marson: 'little brown girl' in a 'white, white city' -- Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage -- Afterword.