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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Reggie Oliver
Reggie Oliver
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Oliver, Reggie
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Cultural formation
Stella Gibbons
SG
's neighbourhood was considered to be working- and lower-middle class, but her father's professional status set her family apart from their surroundings. According to
Reggie Oliver
,
SG
's biographer and nephew, her close...
Intertextuality and Influence
Stella Gibbons
Such earthy regionalists—who include
Thomas Hardy
and
D. H. Lawrence
, as well as
Webb
and
Kaye-Smith
—become the butt of
SG
's satire in
Cold Comfort Farm
.
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Oliver, Reggie.
Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons
. Bloomsbury, 1998.
66, 112
Reggie Oliver
suggests that...
Literary responses
Stella Gibbons
The collection did not fare well with critics, but
Reggie Oliver
believes that
For Those in the Depths
is one of
SG
's best stories.
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Oliver, Reggie.
Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons
. Bloomsbury, 1998.
213-14
Textual Features
Stella Gibbons
SG
's biographer,
Reggie Oliver
, speculates that the lesbian writer figure, Dorothy Hoad, may be based on
Dorothy Wellesley
.
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Oliver, Reggie.
Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons
. Bloomsbury, 1998.
50-1
The lesbian love scenes sometimes parody
Radclyffe Hall
's
The Well of Loneliness
.
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Beauman, Nicola.
A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39
. Virago, 1983.
219
Oliver, Reggie.
Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons
. Bloomsbury, 1998.
141
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Oliver, Reggie.
Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons
. Bloomsbury, 1998.