Title: Twentieth century women novelists /
Authors: Staley, Thomas F.
Date: 1982
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books,
Physical description: xvi, 224 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: Collection of ten essays on the leading women novelists of today, including Margaret drabble, Susan Hill, P.D. James, jennifer Johnston, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch, Edna O'Brien, Barbara Pym, and Muriel Spark.
Contents: Passionate portrayal of things to come : Doris Lessing's recent fiction / Sydney Janet Kaplan -- Wages of intellectuality ... and the fictional wagers of Iris Murdoch / Kingsley Widmer -- Olivia Manning : witness to history / Harry J. Mooney, Jr. -- Women victimized by fiction : living and loving in the novels of Barbara Pym / Barbara Brothers -- Cold enclosures : the fiction of Susan Hill / Rosemary Jackson -- Clinical world of P.D. James / Bernard Benstock -- Women and children first : the novels of Margaret Drabble / Gail Cunningham -- Muriel Spark : the novelist as dandy / William McBrien -- Edna O'Brien: a kind of Irish childhood / Darcy O'Brien -- Masculine world of Jennifer Johnston / Shari Benstock.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject headings (LCSH): English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.; English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.