Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, pp. 5 - 23.
Cora Kaplan
Standard Name: Kaplan, Cora
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | This novel also takes up contemporary debates over race and nation in relation to the figure of Olive herself; the language of racial description permeates the novel's depiction of her English mother and her Scottish... |
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. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977. 85-6 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | FH
was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan
was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans
in her early attempt to... |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's reputation fell sharply after the turn of the century. Virginia Woolf
wittily remarked in the 1930s: fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her, nobody discusses her... |
Reception | Sarah Waters | SW
calls this book on the one hand a homage to the sensation novels of Braddon
and Wilkie Collins
, on the other hand a reflection of 1990s excitement over the concept of queer. Writing... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The volume revolves around the events in Italy surrounding Napoleon III
's betrayal, in the treaty of Villafranca in July 1859, of allies in the Italian nationalist cause against Austria, but earlier poems are also... |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | This was the first novel of DMC
's in which the motif of disability—her predilection for cripples and invalids Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, pp. 5 - 23. 11 |
Textual Features | Hannah Cullwick | HC
plays up the Victorian obsession with dirt regularly, often noting that she prepared meals in [her] dirt Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Stanley, LizEditor , Rutgers University Press, 1984. 69, 116 |
Textual Features | Michelene Wandor | This includes work by Nora Bartlett
, Sara Maitland
, Judith Kazantzis
, Wendy Mulford
, Libby Houston
, Cora Kaplan
, Michèle Roberts
, Angela Carter
, Noel Greig
, Rozsika Parker
, Alison Hennegan |
Textual Production | Gillian Slovo | In dedications she thanks her daughter Cassie for the idea of the dog and her sister Robyn
for the idea of the laudanum addiction. Slovo, Gillian. An Honourable Man. Virago Press, 2012. prelims |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jeni Couzyn | JC
's introduction is a succinct and sharply intelligent historical sketch of women's poetry in English and the forces arrayed against it. She begins with the Gaelic oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands as represented... |
Timeline
May 1975
Cora Kaplan
edited the first modern anthology of women's poetry in Britain: Salt and Bitter and Good: three centuries of English and American women poets, published by Paddington Press
.
January 1979
The Feminist Review, an academic and theoretical journal, began publication in London.
By mid-October 1983
Ursula Owen
, editor of Virago Press
, published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.