Wilson, Emily. “The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker review—a feminist Iliad”. theguardian.com.
Emily Wilson
Standard Name: Wilson, Emily
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Pat Barker | Wilson
, in a deeply appreciative review, called this novel brilliant . . . . an important, powerful, memorable book. Although judging that Barker falters occasionally in her grasp of the archaic setting, she praises... |
Timeline
By November 2017: Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter...
Women writers item
By November 2017
Classical scholar Emily Wilson
(daughter and grand-daughter of English-literature scholars Katherine Duncan-Jones
and Elsie Duncan-Jones
) became the first woman ever to translate the whole of Homer
's Odyssey into English.