Elaine Showalter

Standard Name: Showalter, Elaine

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Germaine Greer
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 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...
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...
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, 2000.
46, 59-60
Elaine Showalter wrote the introduction to Virago 's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell wrote that of Thoemmes , 1994.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
The undated second issue of the first edition added a frontispiece.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
70
The monograph essay is available online at the Victorian Women Writers Project at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/craik/thoughts.html#Text. It was also republished along with DMC 's On...
politics Simone de Beauvoir
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 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, 28 Nov. 2009.
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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...
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.
qtd. in
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
20
, No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28.
214
An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...
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
Since...
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.
85-6
Cora Kaplan ...
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, 29 July 2011, p. 40.
40

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.
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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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

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.