Showalter, Elaine. “A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble”. Guardian Weekly, p. 40.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Helen Dunmore | Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter
in the Guardian was highly critical. |
| Literary responses | Margaret Drabble | Elaine Showalter
has called this story clever, playful and unpretentious. |
| 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... |
| 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. 70 |
| 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... |
| 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 , pp. 5-23. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press. 85-6 |
| 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. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 213-28. 214 |
| 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. 83, n93 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | 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 |
| politics | Simone de Beauvoir |
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