This unique reference work is the first book to concentrate on early twentieth-century women's writing. It includes detailed entries on 185 authors, ranging from the canonical (Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, Viriginia Woolf) through the popular (Agatha Christie, Nancy Mitford, Beatrix Potter) to the largely forgotten (Olive Moore, Barbara Comyns, Winifred Watson). The book draws together information and references relating to a group of fascinating authors in need of rediscovery, opening up exciting new avenues of research for students, teachers and researchers. The encyclopedia also provides contextualising material, with 76 concise introductions to related topics, including organisations, movements, genres and publications, as well as literary and historical events. Topics covered include Bloomsbury, Children's Literature, Libraries, Fashion and Youth Culture, Sexology, Mass Observation, Education and the Welfare State. An integral timeline provides a framework for the entries, and an exceptionally detailed bibliography of 100 books (including criticism, history, reference, and anthologies) is an invaluable point of reference.
'This is a worthwhile and timely project, which provides a companion to recent scholarship in this area...It is delightful to come across generous quotations from such a diversity of writers...It is in recovering such forgotten writers that this book excells.' - Felicity James, Times Literary Supplement
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Encyclopedia Entries
Appendixes
Pseudonyms
Minor Writers
Timeline
Annotated Bibliography
Indexes
Authors
Topics
FAYE HAMMILL is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and has previously held posts at the universities of Liverpool and Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (winner of the Pierre Savard Award 2003), Canadian Literature (2007) and Women, Celebrity and Literary Canada Between the Wars (2007).
ASHLIE SPONENBERG is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA and has previously taught at Carlow College, Pittsburgh, USA and York College - City University of New York, USA. She is completing a study of British left-wing literature for children.
ESME MISKIMMIN teaches at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is working on a monograph, Dorothy L. Sayers: Detection, Dogma and Drama and is co-author (with Christopher Routledge) of two texts in the Palgrave Macmillan 'Crime Files' series: 100 American Crime Writers and 100 British Crime Writers.
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This unique reference work is the first book to concentrate on early twentieth-century women's writing. It includes detailed entries on 185 authors, ranging from the canonical (Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, Viriginia Woolf) through the popular (Agatha Christie, Nancy Mitford, Beatrix Potter) to the largely forgotten (Olive Moore, Barbara Comyns, Winifred Watson). The book draws together information and references relating to a group of fascinating authors in need of rediscovery, opening up exciting new avenues of research for students, teachers and researchers. The encyclopedia also provides contextualising material, with 76 concise introductions to related topics, including organisations, movements, genres and publications, as well as literary and historical events. Topics covered include Bloomsbury, Children's Literature, Libraries, Fashion and Youth Culture, Sexology, Mass Observation, Education and the Welfare State. An integral timeline provides a framework for the entries, and an exceptionally detailed bibliography of 100 books (including criticism, history, reference, and anthologies) is an invaluable point of reference.
Reviews
'This is a worthwhile and timely project, which provides a companion to recent scholarship in this area...It is delightful to come across generous quotations from such a diversity of writers...It is in recovering such forgotten writers that this book excells.' - Felicity James, Times Literary Supplement
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Encyclopedia Entries
Appendixes
Pseudonyms
Minor Writers
Timeline
Annotated Bibliography
Indexes
Authors
Topics
Authors
FAYE HAMMILL is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and has previously held posts at the universities of Liverpool and Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (winner of the Pierre Savard Award 2003), Canadian Literature (2007) and Women, Celebrity and Literary Canada Between the Wars (2007).
ASHLIE SPONENBERG is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA and has previously taught at Carlow College, Pittsburgh, USA and York College - City University of New York, USA. She is completing a study of British left-wing literature for children.
ESME MISKIMMIN teaches at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is working on a monograph, Dorothy L. Sayers: Detection, Dogma and Drama and is co-author (with Christopher Routledge) of two texts in the Palgrave Macmillan 'Crime Files' series: 100 American Crime Writers and 100 British Crime Writers.
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