Women Authors category: 700 books
The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s
Public Affection and Private Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This book explores the ways in which five female radical novelists of the 1790s—Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft—attempt to use the components of private life to work toward widespread social reform. These writers depict the conjugal family...
The Matrimonial Trap
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously...
Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000
Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings. This book takes into consideration known,...
Alice Adams
Portrait of a Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
From the acclaimed author of Raymond Carver, the first full-scale popular biography of Alice Adams (1926-1999), whose fiction chronicled the sexual revolution and women’s lives from the 1950s to the 1990s—in real time.
“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a...
Virginia Woolf
The Will to Create as a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.
In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935,...
by Liz Byrski
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Why are we so obsessed with staying young?
In a culture that advocates the pursuit of endless youth and physical beauty how can we embrace the reality, the pleasures and the rewards of getting on? And what does the 'fight against ageing' mean when all women must eventually face the double-standard...
Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals)
British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions. Featuring hard-to-find writings from colonists and colonized, citizens and slaves, religious visionaries and scandal-dogged actresses, these wide-ranging selections present...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume Two: A Critical Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s (1874–1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, it traces milestones and turning...
by Carole Gerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
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Periodicals and Journalism
Carole Gerson
Chapter 6 shows how the rise of women’s journalism offered specific opportunities that coalesced in the founding of the Canadian Women’s Press Club in 1904.
The Right to Write
The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women...
Black Milk
On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life.
After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of the...
by Joanna Russ
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as...