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.
DM
left in manuscript a poem which has been entitled from its opening words, When Deaths Cold Hand, written in 1682, now among Locke's papers in the Bodleian Library
as Locke MS c. 32...
Textual Production
Damaris Masham
Editor Germaine Greer
and her collaborators suspect on grounds of style that DM
is the author of a poem included in John Norris
's Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters, Occasionally...
Textual Production
Hilary Mantel
Having contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway? Essays in celebration of PLR
's Twentieth Anniversary, 1999, published by the Society of Authors
, HM
went on to write another on recent...
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...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Jennings
She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council
(after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Some critics disparage EJ
's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
Textual Production
Lucy Hutchinson
Its full title was Order and Disorder; or, The World Made and Undone. Meditations on the Creation and the Fall As it is recorded in the Beginning of Genesis. Anthony à Wood
ascribed it...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Monica Furlong
She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God.
Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton.
13
She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...
Textual Production
Margaret Forster
MF
's publisher suggested that she should write this book. Her first response was that it ought to be written by a proper feminist
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(14 September 1984): 11
like Germaine Greer
. Her book takes...
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....
Textual Production
Eva Figes
EF
said later that she wrote this book because she felt angry and wanted to change people's attitudes
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
74
(her usual motive for non-fiction, she wrote later, was anger or outrage). While working on her...
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...
Literary responses
Carol Ann Duffy
Germaine Greer
called I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentinebreezy and populist.
Greer, Germaine. “A biodegradable art. Changing fashions in anthologies of women’s poetry”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4813, pp. 7-8.
8
Textual Production
Ethel M. Dell
The novel is dedicated to her friend Mary Bastard
.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
68-9
Germaine Greer
later borrowed this novel's title for her book about women painters, 1979.
Textual Production
Jeni Couzyn
JC
's writing and public work shows a particular concern with the figure of the writer, as deeply compulsive and bound up with self-recognition. Because of this, she says, she muddled poetry with identity, and...
