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The title (not the one under which it was first submitted) strikingly anticipates that of Sylvia Plath 's The Bell Jar, 1963, with its image of an invisible barrier separating the protagonist from the...

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...

The first part of Fasting, Feasting, set in a middle-class household in Delhi, focuses on Uma and Aruna struggling with their role as dutiful daughters. Whereas Aruna leaves the family home for a...

FD sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's...

QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...

In what critic Carolyn Christensen Nelson considers one of the most humorous of the New Woman novels on marriage to appear during the 1890s,MMD 's first effort at full-length fiction set the stage...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...

In this novel Hugh Ludlow, handsome, healthy, and the only son of a rich man, whose fortune he would of course inherit is sent to study with his father's old tutor in rural...

Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .

Like its rejected predecessor, it is based on recent actual experience. Morag Graham, who comes from an unsophisticated, working-class, northern background, has fixed her schoolgirl dreams and aspirations on entrance to Oxford ; she is...

Let Me Alone is the book which introduces the orphan protagonist Anna Kavan, whose name the author later adopted as her persona. This novel of feminist protest is considered autobiographical, since Kavan's Aunt Lauretta is...

Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky , editor of the Palestine Post,

In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...

High Table is an Oxford University novel, whose protagonist, Theodore Fletcher, grows up a child in a loveless family and feels a sudden, blank dreariness which . . . swamped his mind, when, lying awake...