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.
Black-and-white photo of Germaine Greer, looking at the camera and holding a tall bunch of sticks as she stretches one leg over a fence, March 1971.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Anne Stevenson
Germaine Greer praises her in Slip-Shod Sibyls for expressing consciousness of herself as a woman poet rather than the woman poet, for looking forward to the forging of a new language in which women would...
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.
qtd. in
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.
419
In the later twentieth century it was dismissed by a...
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, 2003.
211
names Ephelia
  • BirthName: LadyMary Villiers
  • Nicknames: ButterflyPapillon
    These nicknames, arising from an incident at Court, were recorded by the French writer, courtier, and possibly spy, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy .
    Mulvihill, Maureen E. “’Butterfly’ of the Restoration Court: A Preview of Lady Mary Villiers, the New ’Ephelia’ Candidate”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
    9
    , No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1996, pp. 25-39.
    31-2

  • Married: LadyHerbert; Stuart
  • Pseudonyms: Ephelia
    Scholars differ about...
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 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 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 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 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 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...

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