According to HC
, she began writing in 1966, a year before the publication of her first book. She has commented extensively on the function of writing, particularly by and for women, and the emotional...
Literary responses
Michèle Roberts
MR
says that her father
was the muse for this novel.
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34.
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Critic Susan Sellers
finds an illuminating frame for the work in Luce Irigaray
's essay Divine Women, which discusses woman's unmet need...
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Texts
Cixous, Hélène. "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays. Editor Jenson, Deborah, Translators Cornell, Sarah et al., Harvard University Press, 1991.
Hobby, Elaine. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘a’>Oh Oxford Thou Art Full of Filth</span>: The Prophetical Writings of Hester Biddle, 1629[?]-1696”. Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice, edited by Susan Sellers and Susan Sellers, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 157-69.