Roberts, Michèle. In the Red Kitchen. Methuen, 1990.
prelims
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Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Mathers | Her mother, about whom little is known, was born Maria Buckingham
. Her daughter's most famous work, Comin' Thro' the Rye, depicts a sweet and exhausted mother who is, according to critic Elaine Showalter |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | MW
became interested in Browning in 1972 after reading an article by feminist critic Elaine Showalter
, but did not begin writing the play for a few years. She found the process of adapting the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | Rich was during her lifetime and still is widely acclaimed and honoured as a major poet, theorist, and critic of culture. Her poetry and prose have been examined in literary and social criticism, and in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen
and Elaine Showalter
. Roberts, Michèle. In the Red Kitchen. Methuen, 1990. prelims |
Literary responses | Margaret Drabble | Elaine Showalter
has called this story clever, playful and unpretentious. Showalter, Elaine. “A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble”. Guardian Weekly, p. 40. 40 |
Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | Advance readers compared the book favourably to Winterson' s popular early novels, even though they considered it to contain the same excesses that readers disliked in later works. However, according to Elaine Showalter
in the... |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter
in the Guardian was highly critical. |
Literary responses | Ellen Wood | The following year, Elaine Showalter
, in her influential A Literature of Their Own, 1977, claimed that for EW[w]riting was a form of release that enabled her to recover from her illness and... |
Literary responses | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
was viewed with ambivalence by a later generation of critics who sought to reclaim women's literature. Sandra Gilbert
and Susan Gubar
, for example, read Ellis as a willing captive in a separate sphere... |
Literary responses | Maggie Gee | Elaine Showalter
picked this as a favourite read of the year, saying that it brilliantly negotiates the explosive racial territory that it stakes out. “2009 in Review: Christmas Books”. Guardian Weekly. 54 |
Literary responses | Sarah Grand | Elaine Showalter
brought SG
to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book. Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 220 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Most major shifts in second-wave feminist literary criticism have been marked by influential rereadings of Jane Eyre: Ellen Moers
(1976) and Elaine Showalter
(1977) in the assertion of a female literary tradition; the Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective |
Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | Despite GJ
's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant
passed her over in The... |
Literary responses | Pearl S. Buck | Maxine Hong Kingston
, meanwhile, said in 1992 that her search for Chinese women's voices was first answered by PSB
's work. Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 83, n93 |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, No. 2, pp. 213 - 28. 214 |