GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Features
Margaret Drabble
The woman of the title story is experiencing the liberation of second-wave feminism, but working a heavy double shift, with a brilliant and enviable career but a resentful, punitive husband. The smile is purely a...
Textual Features
Rhoda Broughton
In this novel the motherless narrator-heroine, Nell Le Strange, falls in love with a handsome young soldier, but false stories of his infidelity (with a letter forged by Nell's sister) break up the affair. Nell...
Textual Features
Dinah Mulock Craik
This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a...
Reception
Julia Ward Howe
Elaine Showalter
's biography, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe, 2016, claimed that Howe possessed the subversive intellect of an Emily Dickinson
, the political and philosophical interests of an Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publishing
Sarah Grand
She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2. Editor Forward, Stephanie, Routledge.
46, 59-60
Elaine Showalter
wrote the introduction to Virago
's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell
wrote that of Thoemmes
, 1994.
SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...
Literary Setting
Geraldine Jewsbury
During her marriage, Zoe becomes acquainted with a Catholic priest named Everhard Borrows who doubts his faith. They fall in love, and Everhard feels compelled to leave the priesthood for Zoe. One of the novel's...
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.
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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.
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Timeline
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.
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.
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
, 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.