Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
A. S. Byatt
Standard Name: Byatt, A. S.
Birth Name: Antonia Susan Drabble
Married Name: Antonia Susan Byatt
Married Name: Antonia Susan Duffy
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, publishing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is predominantly a novelist of ideas. Her works (stories and criticism as well as novels) are intellectually demanding, typically spinning a complex web of literary and cultural allusions. She likes depicting extreme personal situations: critic Hilary Spurling has said she is adept at rendering disintegration.
Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus.
IM
spoke with her younger fellow-novelist A. S. Byatt
about aspects of her craft, in an interview for BBC
Radio Four which is now available on the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production
Penelope Fitzgerald
A volume of PF
's letters appeared in print in 2008, edited by her son-in-law Terence Dooley
and titled So I Have Thought of You, with a preface by A. S. Byatt
. The...
Textual Production
Willa Cather
The title is explained by her prefatory note (called sour by Byatt
), which says that nobody under forty will be interested in reading her opinions, because the world broke in two in 1922 or...
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...
Violence
Elizabeth Siddal
As Marsh
puts it, this deeply transgressive act has since then been a symbol of religious, poetic and personal violation.
Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books.
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Rossetti himself justified his action to Swinburne
as follows: no one so much as...