This work looks at the body of women's fiction written in postwar Britain, up to 1960. It examines the myth of the fairy tale ending and what changes the postwar period has wrought in subverting stereotypes.

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Book Title: Happily Ever After?
Book Subtitle: Women’s Fiction in Postwar Britain 1945–60
Authors: Niamh Baker
Series Title: Women in Society: A Feminist List
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20288-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46041-2Published: 20 October 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-20288-1Published: 20 October 1989
Series ISSN: 2947-4167
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4175
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 199
Topics: Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies

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