Elaine Showalter

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ....

Bertrand Russell exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...

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...

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...

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...