Germaine Greer

29 January 1939

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.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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. 6
Literary responses	Lucy Hutchinson	Since her tally of works in print began to climb steeply in the 1990s, anthologists Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson have called LHone of the most important poets, man or woman, of the mid-century...
Material Conditions of Writing	Ruth Pitter	Germaine Greer perceives in The Diehards an allusion to the period when these poems were composed and published, when parks and lawns were dug up for food and 1,400,000 Britons were digging for victory. Greer, Germaine, editor. Poems for Gardeners. Virago. 211
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...
politics	Harold Pinter	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
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...
Reception	L. E. L.	More recently, however, LEL has been subject to critical revaluation, as feminist critics have questioned the historical processes and aesthetic standards that led to her exclusion from the literary canon, and are developing increasingly complex...
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...
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. 2 Arthur Russell
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	Ephelia	In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley suggested in Samuel Halkett and John Laing 's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This...
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	Carol Rumens	The new work in CR 's Selected Poems is full of surprises. Plangent love poems, end-of-love poems, poems about the heartbreaking vulnerability and risk-running of teenage girls, lie side by side with wryly satirical renderings...
Textual Features	Carol Rumens	In her introduction CR calls for quality and professionalism. Those women writers, she says, who have been concerned with the stern art of poetry as an end in itself have tended to be swamped by...
Textual Features	Anne Finch	Although AF is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet....

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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.

, 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.

Greer, Germaine. Whitefella Jump Up. Profile Books, 2004.