A literature of their own

By Elaine Showalter

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

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.