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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn a… OL115631W
Novel histories Novel histories Lisa Kasmer Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape b… OL16298907W
The Matrimonial Trap The Matrimonial Trap Laura E. Thomason 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 s… OL16815755W
The Cambridge companion to early modern women's writing The Cambridge companion to early modern women's writing Laura Lunger Knoppers "Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of… OL16957958W
The new science and women's literary discourse The new science and women's literary discourse Judy A. Hayden Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless made significant contributions to intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Women … OL16980868W
Women Writers In Renaissance England An Annotated Anthology Women Writers In Renaissance England An Annotated Anthology Randall Martin xv, 462 pages ; 24 cm OL17404212W
British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 Molly Youngkin "Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Ha… OL22318244W
Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist Linda M. Lewis "By examining literary portraits of the woman as artist, Linda M. Lewis traces the matrilineal inheritance of four Victorian novelists and poets: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geraldine J… OL2714538W
Boss ladies, watch out! Boss ladies, watch out! Terry Castle "Boss Ladies, Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books an… OL3275589W
To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
The madwoman in the attic The madwoman in the attic Sandra M. Gilbert Discusses the works of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. OL545633W
The undergraduate's companion to women writers and their web sites The undergraduate's companion to women writers and their web sites Katharine A. Dean "Devoted exclusively to women writers from the English-speaking world, this book presents undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research.… OL5954743W