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
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
She felt, too, that the book was influenced by the place where...
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...
Literary responses
Dinah Mulock Craik
Elaine Showalter
initiated feminist interest in DMC
, first with a substantial article and then with treatment of her as a paradigmatic feminine novelist who promoted domesticity as a defensive strategy.
Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol.
2
, 1975, pp. 5-23.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
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, 29 July 2011, p. 40.
40
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
Helen Dunmore
Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter
in the Guardian was highly critical.
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
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
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
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
312
Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. 25 Jan. 2017.
Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe
(Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...
Literary responses
Olive Schreiner
The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing
(who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books ....
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
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
Elaine Showalter
has written that it is time for Buck to...
Timeline
1856: In Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical...
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1856
In Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints, physician John Conolly
dramatically portrayed the advantages of state incarceration for mentally unstable women.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
68
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
66, 68, 79
Elaine Showalter
draws the connection between lunacy debates...
1977: Elaine Showalter published A Literature of...
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1977
Elaine Showalter
published A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë
to Lessing, an important work in women's literary history.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
26 September 1991: Elaine Showalter published Sister's Choice:...
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26 September 1991
Elaine Showalter
published Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing , complement or sequel to her book of British women's literary history, A Literature of Their Own, 1977.
By early March 2009: Elaine Showalter published A Jury of Her...
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By early March 2009
Elaine Showalter
published A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet
to Annie Proulx.
Roiphe, Katie. “Writing Women”. The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 5 Mar. 2009.
Texts
Showalter, Elaine. “A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble”. Guardian Weekly, p. 40.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol.
2
, 1975, pp. 5-23.
Showalter, Elaine. “Emily Dickinson unlaced”. Guardian Weekly, p. 34.
Showalter, Elaine. “Eternal Triangles in Cyberspace”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18.
Showalter, Elaine, and Olive Schreiner. “Introduction”. The Story of an African Farm, Bantam, 1993, p. vii - xxi.
Rossetti, Christina, and Dinah Mulock Craik. Maude; On Sisterhoods; A Woman’s Thoughts about Women. Editor Showalter, Elaine, New York University Press, 1993.
Showalter, Elaine. “Sisters at odds”. The Guardian, p. G2, 18.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
Showalter, Elaine. “The Snowman Cometh”. London Review of Books, p. 35.
Showalter, Elaine. “Witnesses of the word”. The Guardian, p. Review 10.
