A literature of their own

By Elaine Showalter

Subjects: Women authors, Biography, Autores ingleses, Women novelists, english, Femmes et littérature, Femmes écrivains, Biographies, English fiction, Frauenliteratur, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--great britain--history, Mujeres como autoras, English fiction--20th century--history and criticism, Biografía, Histoire, Literature, women authors, English fiction--19th century--history and criticism, Novela inglesa, Écrits de femmes anglais, English fiction, history and criticism, Women and literature--history, Pr115 .s5x 1982, Women novelists, english--biography, Roman, Frau, English fiction--history and criticism, Romancières anglaises, Frauenroman, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Romanschriftstellerin, Historia y crítica, History, Women and literature, English fiction--women authors--history and criticism, Roman anglais, Literatura inglesa, English Women novelists

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.