Elaine Showalter

Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter in the Guardian was highly critical.

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...

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...

Elaine Showalter picked this as a favourite read of the year, saying that it brilliantly negotiates the explosive racial territory that it stakes out.

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. Since...

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

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...

Maxine Hong Kingston , meanwhile, said in 1992 that her search for Chinese women's voices was first answered by PSB 's work.Elaine Showalter has written that it is time for Buck to...

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...

Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen and Elaine Showalter . She felt, too, that the book was influenced by the place where...

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...

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