Jeanette Winterson
Standard Name: Winterson, Jeanette
Birth Name: Jeanette Winterson
, writing in the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, has been acclaimed by some critics and savaged by others for her provocative and outspoken novels, in which she uncompromisingly confronts cultural notions of gender identity, sexuality, and religion. She attempts to change the world through her writing in the manner of but in place of political activism. Her work is widely studied and celebrated by feminist and lesbian readers and critics. Characteristically, she blends many genres: fable, fairytale, fantasy, history, philosophy, lesbian writing, science fiction, magic realism, and scientific studies. She is fond of stories in which the characters are on a journey together.
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Winterson, Jeanette. “A Short”. The Times, No. 67746, p. 6S.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Alice Oswald: A Sleepwalk on the Severn”. Jeanette Winterson, 2013, https://www.jeanettewinterson.com/poem/alice-oswald-a-sleepwalk-on-the-severn/.
Winterson, Jeanette. Art and Lies. Cape, 1994.
Winterson, Jeanette. Art Objects. Cape, 1995.
Winterson, Jeanette, and Paula Youens. Boating for Beginners. Methuen, 1985.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Cut Out and Keep”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 52-4.
Winterson, Jeanette. Fit for the Future: The Guide for Women Who Want to Live Well. Pandora, 1986.
Winterson, Jeanette. “From Ted Hughes to HG Wells: Jeanette Winterson picks the best books about the moon”. The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/20/moon-best-books-about-earths-satellite.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Good reading we bring”. Guardian Weekly, edited by Ginny Hooker, p. 54.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Two Filmscripts. Vintage, 1994.
Winterson, Jeanette. Gut Symmetries. Granta, 1997.
Winterson, Jeanette, and Amelia Opie. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, Pandora Press, 1986, p. v - viii.
Winterson, Jeanette. “It must be her hormones”. The Guardian, pp. Review 2 - 3.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Jeanette Winterson: we need to be more imaginative about modern marriage”. theguardian.com.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Jeanette Winterson: why I fasted for 11 days”. theguardian.com.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Malice behind author’s unmasking”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
Winterson, Jeanette. “My hero: Shelagh Delaney”. Guardian.co.uk.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Not a mother to Marilyn”. Times, p. 39.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Pandora, 1985.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora, 1990.
Winterson, Jeanette, editor. Passion Fruit: Romantic Fiction with a Twist. Pandora, 1986.
Winterson, Jeanette. “Patricia Highsmith, Hiding in Plain Sight”. The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Winterson, Jeanette. Sexing the Cherry. Bloomsbury, 1989.
Winterson, Jeanette. Tanglewreck. Bloomsbury, 2006.