Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Islam
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Textual Production | Roma White | In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW
presented an Englishman who marries an Islam
ic woman. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | As monarch, she maintained a remarkably wide-ranging correspondence. She wrote her first letter to a Muslim
sovereign, the Great Sophie of Persia (the Savafid emperor), in 1561. Andrea, Bernardette. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literatre and Culture. University of Toronto Press. 43 |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | |
politics | Mary Fisher | |
politics | Mary Carpenter | MC
was impartially critical of various Hindu
, Muslim
, and Parsi
practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity |
Cultural formation | Rosita Forbes | Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of... |
Cultural formation | Roma White | |
Cultural formation | Rudyard Kipling | As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions... |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie |
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