Alison Booth

Standard Name: Booth, Alison

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Reception George Eliot
Alison Booth has traced GE 's influence on Virginia Woolf , and several critics have anointed Margaret Drabble as her major successor among contemporary British writers.
Booth, Alison. Greatness Engendered. Cornell University Press, 1992.
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Blake, Kathleen. “George Eliot: The Critical Heritage”. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, edited by George Levine and George Levine, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 202-25.
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As Gillian Beer notes, GEwas not...
Reception Anne Katharine Elwood
Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England enjoyed considerable popularity, with a further London edition appearing in 1843, and American editions in 1843, 1845, and 1973. It was later used as a source for the...

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Texts

Tucker, Herbert F. “Aurora Leigh: Epic Solutions to Novel Ends”. Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure, edited by Alison Booth, University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 62-85.
Booth, Alison. “Orlando: Womens Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (review)”. Biography, Vol.
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, No. 4, University of Hawaii Press, 2008, pp. 725-34.
Booth, Alison. Greatness Engendered. Cornell University Press, 1992.
Booth, Alison. How to Make It as a Woman. University of Chicago Press, 2004.