Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Germaine Greer
, anthologizing this poem, notes that it would be merely conventional, just the usual moralisation of the gardening process, but for the specificity which makes it read like instructions to students of horticulture.
Greer, Germaine, editor. Poems for Gardeners. Virago.
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Reception
Ruth Pitter
During her lifetime RP
was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis
scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
The idea went back to the Conservative budget that spring, a time when groups of this kind were expected to be Tory rather than Labour. People involved included John Mortimer
, Anthony Howard
, Germaine Greer
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...
Publishing
Katherine Philips
His paragraph of retraction in Mercurius Publicus said he was now convinced that his texts were defective and not authorised by the poet. Some scholars, notably Germaine Greer
, have suspected that these statements were...
Literary responses
Christabel Pankhurst
Nearly twenty years later Sylvia Pankhurst
accused this book of sensationalism and of preaching the sex war deprecated and denied by the older Suffragists.
Purvis, June, and Maureen Wright. “Writing Suffragette History: the contending autobiographical narratives of the Pankhursts”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 405-33.
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In the later twentieth century it was dismissed by a...
Literary responses
Emmeline Pankhurst
Germaine Greer
has observed that the fact of Emily Davison
's death after running in front of the king's horse in the Derbyremains unspoken in Pankhurst's speech, which hardly makes sense without it.
Greer, Germaine, and Emmeline Pankhurst. “Foreword”. Freedom or death, Guardian News and Media.
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Reception
Sylvia Pankhurst
During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen
toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP
(at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by...
Textual Features
Martha Moulsworth
Germaine Greer
comments on what she finds the astonishing contrast between the I of [the will] and the I of the poem. In the will MM
presents herself in the centre of a warmly interdependent...
Literary responses
Jan Morris
Germaine Greer
wrote a review for the Evening Standard which opens politely: You cannot help liking Jan Morris and she poses her Conundrum in great style. Greer uses the feminine pronoun but asserts that Morris...
Occupation
Mary More
MM
was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library
in Oxford. It was thought 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.
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...
Reception
Elizabeth Melvill
EM
's literary reputation has been burgeoning. In June 2014 her writing was commemorated with an inscribed flagstone at Makars' Court in Edinburgh, unveiled by Jamie Reid Baxter
and Germaine Greer
. The stone...
Reception
Damaris Masham
Editor Germaine Greer
and her colleagues discern in this correspondence a subtext of persistent metaphysical debate, she pushing him to define his postion on such issues as the Souls Haveing no Actual Knowledge. It...
Timeline
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Texts
Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. MacGibbon and Kee, 1970.
Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.
Greer, Germaine, editor. The Last Word. BBC Broadcasting Support Services, 1994.
Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1986.
Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1987.
Greer, Germaine. “The making of Maggie”. Guardian Weekly.
Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.
Greer, Germaine, and Michael ffolkes. The Revolting Garden. Private Eye Productions: A. Deutsch, 1979.
Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, http://BLC.
Greer, Germaine. “The Tulsa Center for the Study of Women’s Literature: What We Are Doing and Why We Are Doing It”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
1
, pp. 5-26.
Behn, Aphra. The Uncollected Verse of Aphra Behn. Editor Greer, Germaine, Stump Cross Books, 1989.
Greer, Germaine. The Whole Woman. Doubleday, 1999.
