Germaine Greer

Standard Name: Greer, Germaine
Birth Name: Germaine Greer
Pseudonym: Germaine
Pseudonym: Dr G.
Pseudonym: Earth Rose
Pseudonym: Rose Blight
GG , scholar and media person, was one of the early and most important voices in the explosion of feminist theory and action in the 1970s. She also worked in journalism and published a satirical gardening column. She has written academic literary history, and monographs of social analysis on a number of burning topics: population control, the status of women, international relations between rich and poor countries, and environmental damage and conservation. GG has founded and run a journal devoted to the study of women's writing. Her editorial production includes a ground-breaking anthology of seventeenth-century women's poetry, as well as collected works by individual early female poets, and broader poetry selections. Her book about discovering her father's mysterious past combines biography with autobiography.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rose Tremain
This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marina Warner
In Our Lady of the CountercultureMW writes of her own early search for heroinism from heroines like Eleanor of Aquitaine or Florence Nightingale (featured in the young people's comic Girl) through scandalous women...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michèle Roberts
This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...
Textual Production Margaret Forster
MF 's publisher suggested that she should write this book. Her first response was that it ought to be written by a proper feminist
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(14 September 1984): 11
like Germaine Greer . Her book takes...
Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
Its full title was Order and Disorder; or, The World Made and Undone. Meditations on the Creation and the Fall As it is recorded in the Beginning of Genesis. Anthony à Wood ascribed it...
Textual Production Katherine Philips
KP and her circle had no objection to appearing in print as well as circulating in manuscript, as witness the Cartwright volume and the inclusion of several in Henry Lawes , Second Book of Airs...
Textual Production Anne Wharton
Besides the anthologies mentioned by her editors Greer and Hastings , there were at least fourteen reprints during the first half of the eighteenth century of AW 's song beginning How hardly I conceal'd my tears.
Londry, Michael. “On the Use of First-Line Indices for Researching English Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century, c. 1660-1830, with Special Reference to Women Poets”. The Library, Vol.
5
, No. 1, pp. 12-38.
26
Textual Production Anne Wharton
In their edition of AW , Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings expressed the opinion that further poems by her were likely to surface. This happened within less than a decade. A newly discovered manuscript of...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Having contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway? Essays in celebration of PLR 's Twentieth Anniversary, 1999, published by the Society of Authors , HM went on to write another on recent...
Textual Production Mary Carey
These had been written over a number of years. MC 's own manuscript, formerly owned by the family of the poet Alice Meynell , is now the property of scholar Germaine Greer .
Healey, R. M. “Interview with Germaine Greer”. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol.
180
, pp. 26-34.
29-30
The...
Textual Production Damaris Masham
Editor Germaine Greer and her collaborators suspect on grounds of style that DM is the author of a poem included in John Norris 's Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters, Occasionally...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
JC 's writing and public work shows a particular concern with the figure of the writer, as deeply compulsive and bound up with self-recognition. Because of this, she says, she muddled poetry with identity, and...
Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
The novel is dedicated to her friend Mary Bastard .
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
68-9
Germaine Greer later borrowed this novel's title for her book about women painters, 1979.
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
CM 's manuscripts of poems and short stories and her unpublished letters are held in the British Library and in the Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY Buffalo . The librarians at Buffalo are said to...
Textual Production Viola Meynell
VM 's stories written over a period of thirty years were collected as Kissing the Rod, and Other Stories (a title later used by Germaine Greer for an anthology of seventeenth-century women's poetry).
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Timeline

1677: Mary Beale had a good year as a practising...

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1677

Mary Beale had a good year as a practising painter, with 83 commissions and an earned income of £429. She had set up a studio in Pall Mall in 1670.

1970: Three touchstones of US feminist theory were...

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1970

Three touchstones of USfeminist theory were published: Shulamith Firestone 's The Dialectic of Sex and Robin Morgan 's anthology Sisterhood is Powerful, as well as Kate Millett 's Sexual Politics.

30 April 1971: A Public Debate on Women's Liberation was...

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30 April 1971

A Public Debate on Women's Liberation was held at the Town Hall, New York, between Norman Mailer on one hand, and on the other Jacqueline Ceballos , Germaine Greer , Jill Johnston , and Diana Trilling .

3-16 December 1971: Pakistan and India fought a war over the...

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3-16 December 1971

Pakistan and India fought a war over the secession of the former East Pakistan, which claimed independent nation status as Bangladesh.

: The US Democratic Convention, held this year...

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Autumn1972

The US Democratic Convention, held this year in Miami, saw the first action by the newly formed National Women's Political Caucus .

By 26 October 1972: Helen Gardner edited The New Oxford Book...

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By 26 October 1972

Helen Gardner edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.

28 January 1973: William Hamilton's Private Member's Bill...

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28 January 1973

William Hamilton 's Private Member's Bill to outlaw sex discrimination by employers failed to pass the House of Commons : Ronald Bell single-handedly delayed voting until the teabreak intervened.

1974: The United Nations International Conference...

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1974

The United Nations International Conference on Population and Development met in Bucharest, Romania, to mark World Population Year.

1975: This year was designated International Women's...

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1975

This year was designated International Women's Year, though the intiative of Helvi Sipila of the United Nations .

By Autumn 1975: Carmen Callil's new Virago Press issued its...

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By Autumn 1975

Carmen Callil 's new Virago Press issued its first title, Mary Chamberlain 's Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, an indictment of rural poverty as it bears on women.

January 1996: Novelist Kate Mosse and a committee of literary...

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January 1996

Novelist Kate Mosse and a committee of literary professionals established the Orange Prize for Fiction (later the Baileys Prize, now the Women's Proze for Fiction), a literary prize to be solely awarded to and judged...

2 June 2003: British Asian writer Monica Ali published...

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2 June 2003

British Asian writer Monica Ali published her first novel, Brick Lane, to resounding success.

16 June 2011: Caitlin Moran, a British journalist and broadcaster...

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16 June 2011

Caitlin Moran , a British journalist and broadcaster born in 1975, published How To Be a Woman, a kind of hilarious, moralised, feministmemoir or self-help book.

Texts

Greer, Germaine. “’Backward springs’: The Self-Invention of Martha Moulsworth”. "The Muses Females Are": Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance, edited by Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little, Locust Hill, 1995, pp. 3-8.
Greer, Germaine, editor. 101 Poems by 101 Women. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Greer, Germaine. “A biodegradable art. Changing fashions in anthologies of women’s poetry”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4813, pp. 7-8.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1993.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Penguin, 1990.
Greer, Germaine. “Doomed to Sincerity”. London Review of Books, pp. 9-11.
Greer, Germaine. “Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 79-100.
Greer, Germaine. “Fellini wanted to cast me in Casanova. We ended up in bed together”. The Guardian, p. G2 22.
Greer, Germaine, and Emmeline Pankhurst. “Foreword”. Freedom or death, Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Pankhurst, Emmeline, and Germaine Greer. Freedom or death. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Greer, Germaine. “Grandmother’s footsteps”. The Guardian, pp. Review 2 - 4.
Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, Volume III: The Translations, edited by Germaine Greer and R. Little, Stump Cross Books, 1993, p. ix - xxi.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
Greer, Germaine. On Rape. Melbourne University Publishing, 2018.
Greer, Germaine, editor. Poems for Gardeners. Virago, 2003.
Greer, Germaine. Sex and Destiny. Harper and Row, 1984.
Greer, Germaine. Shakespeare’s Wife. Bloomsbury, 2007.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls. Viking, 1995.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls. Penguin, 1996.
Greer, Germaine. The Boy. Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Hamish Hamilton, 1991.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin, 1992.