"Reader's Digest" Patchwork, Quilting and Applique

Penny Brown

READER\'S DIGEST

This book presents a detailed examination of the ways in which a number of women writers portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness in novels which were a response to the rapidly changing world of the early twentieth century. The differences in approach from that of many male-authored texts highlight the anomalies of a time when opportunities for self-expression and fulfilment were beginning to open up for women but nineteenth-century values and prejudices still widely prevailed. The writers considered here (May Sinclair, Radclyffe Hall, Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White and Dorothy Richardson) have been consistently underrated, marginalized or ignored by much serious criticism and this discussion aims to reinstate them not only as entertaining writers but in their outspoken approach to the problems confronting women and in their often original experimentation in narrative techniques as important contributors to the development of the English novel.

The Poison at the Source: The Female Novel of Self-Development in the Early Twentieth Century

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Begins to redress modern critics' not mere neglect but virulent castigation of 19th-century British women's literary portrayals of children and childhood. Drawing from a selection of authors, identifies images of the child of reason, of faith, and of conflict; the exploited child, and the child at home; and the childhood self remembered. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Captured World: The Child and Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in England

History

This book examines the portrayal of the child and childhood in the work of a wide range of 19th-century English women writers. It examines how the changing concepts of childhood correspond to the developing concern with education, religion, the "woman question" and the problems of the new industrial age. The influences of rationalism, Romanticism, the Evangelical movement and the increasing tendency to self-analysis and psychological exploration, are shown to have had a distinct impact on the way childhood was viewed and presented in women's literature throughout the century. The texts considered range from accepted classics, such as "Jane Eyre", "The Mill on the Floss" and "Wuthering Heights", to works like the Evangelical tracts, sentimental novels and domestic sagas.

The Captured World: The Child in Nineteenth-century Women's Writing in England

Literature & Fiction

Pearson Professional Education

How The Tiger Takes Care Of Her Babies

Joi Washington

Learning to Quilt the Traditional Way

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Annlee Landman

Crafts & Hobbies

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