Elaine Showalter

Her mother, about whom little is known, was born Maria Buckingham . Her daughter's most famous work, Comin' Thro' the Rye, depicts a sweet and exhausted mother who is, according to critic Elaine Showalter

Rich was during her lifetime and still is widely acclaimed and honoured as a major poet, theorist, and critic of culture. Her poetry and prose have been examined in literary and social criticism, and in...

Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen and Elaine Showalter . She felt, too, that the book was influenced by the place where...

MW became interested in Browning in 1972 after reading an article by feminist critic Elaine Showalter , but did not begin writing the play for a few years. She found the process of adapting the...

Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...

The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing (who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books ....

Elaine Showalter initiated feminist interest in DMC , first with a substantial article and then with treatment of her as a paradigmatic feminine novelist who promoted domesticity as a defensive strategy.Cora Kaplan ...

Bertrand Russell exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...

Elaine Showalter has called this story clever, playful and unpretentious.

Advance readers compared the book favourably to Winterson' s popular early novels, even though they considered it to contain the same excesses that readers disliked in later works. However, according to Elaine Showalter in the...

Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter in the Guardian was highly critical.

The following year, Elaine Showalter , in her influential A Literature of Their Own, 1977, claimed that for EW[w]riting was a form of release that enabled her to recover from her illness and...

SSE was viewed with ambivalence by a later generation of critics who sought to reclaim women's literature. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar , for example, read Ellis as a willing captive in a separate sphere...

Elaine Showalter picked this as a favourite read of the year, saying that it brilliantly negotiates the explosive racial territory that it stakes out.

Elaine Showalter brought SG to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book. Since...