Showalter, Elaine. “A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble”. Guardian Weekly, 29 July 2011, p. 40.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 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... |
| politics | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 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 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, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues. 70 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 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... |
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