Mothers and daughters in the twentieth century
Subtitle: a literary anthology
By: edited and introduced by Heather Ingman.
Contributors: Ingman, Heather, 1953-
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Mothers and daughters in literature
Table of contents: title: The quiet house / Charlotte Mew -- From Mary Olivier / May Sinclair -- The angry woman / Anna Wickham -- From Bread givers / Anzia Yezierska -- From South Riding / Winifred Holtby -- From A sketch of the past / Virginia Woolf -- From Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Balloons / Sylvia Plath -- From The millstone / Margaret Drabble -- Mother-in-law / Andrienne Rich -- From journey from the North / Storm Jameson -- Heirloom / Kathleen Raine -- From In search of our mothers gardens / Alice Walker -- From I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- From beloved / Toni Morrison -- Night feed / Eavan Boland -- From Beka Lamb / Zee Edgell -- From the Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan -- Ashputtle, or the mother's ghost / Angela Carter -- Giving birth / Margaret Atwood -- God's house / Michèle Roberts -- Bibliography