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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira
Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira
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Ferreira, Maria Aline Seabra
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Marjorie Bowen
Critic
Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira
notes
MB
's
preoccupation with various social issues,
and describes her as
a protofeminist in a masculine world.
View reference
Johnson, George M., editor.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 153
. Gale Research.
153: 50
In a 1939 lecture,
MB
passionately celebrated the contributions women...
Literary responses
Marjorie Bowen
Ferreira
suggests that this novel
raises several important questions concerning gender stereotyping and society's definition of sexual roles.
View reference
Johnson, George M., editor.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 153
. Gale Research.
153: 46
She praises
MB
's investigation of male and female paradigms, and speculates on the appeal...
Literary responses
Marjorie Bowen
MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing:
Mark Twain
,
Walter de la Mare
,
Compton Mackenzie
, and
Hugh Walpole
, who...
Intertextuality and Influence
Marjorie Bowen
Critic
Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira
comments that the book combines historical and supernatural elements reminiscent of
Marie Corelli
's
The Sorrows of Satan
(1895) with the baroque aspects of Jacobean tragedy. The novel is also...
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