A literature of their own
Subtitle: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
By: Elaine Showalter.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History; Women novelists, English -- Biography
Description: A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand --- to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - --once household names, now largely forgotten.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 351-365.
Includes index.