British literary history teems with accomplished women writers, boasting the likes of Jane Austen and George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft and Annie Besant, Fay Weldon and Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble and A.S. Byatt, and so on. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers provides in a single volume an accessible and stimulating guide to over four hundred British women writers, ranging from medieval mystics such as Julian of Norwich to modern novelists such as Anita Brookner and Edna O'Brien. Shattock includes novelists, poets, and playwrights, together with mystics, diarists, travel writers, scientists--even mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and P.D. James. A number of non-British writers who have influenced British literature also appear, including Anne Bradstreet, Sylvia Plath, Nadine Gordimer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Doris Lessing, and Katherine Mansfield. Arranged alphabetically, the entries provide a brief outline of each woman's life, her major publications, contemporary critical reception, and an evaluation of significant features of her work, together with suggestions for further reading. In addition, the Guide features subject entries and provides an extensive general bibliography on women's writing. Concise, informative and well-organized, The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers will be an invaluable handbook for everyone interested in women's writing.

The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers

Biographies & Memoirs

Shattock, Joanne

Community & Culture

Oxford University Press

This book is an ideal beginner's guide to British women's writing from the fourteenth century to the present. Concise, informative, and well organized, it has entries on 400 writers from Aphra Behn to Jeanette Winterson, Mary Wollestonecraft to Barbara Cartland. Each entry offers an outline of each writer's life, her major publications, contemporary critical reception and an assessment of her work.

The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Documenting the important influence of quarterlies on the cultural and political life in early Victorian times, this volume looks at the three publications which were aligned with the three main political parties. The "Edinburgh" wrote for the Whigs, the "Quarterly" for the Tories and the "Westminster" for the radicals. The exchanges between quarterlies were often heated and were known to erupt in many spheres of life including the House of Commons.

Politics and Reviewers: The Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age

History

Americas

UNKNO

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

Shaw, Marion

Billington, Josie

Jay, Elisabeth

Shelston, Alan

Peterson, Linda H.

Hughes, Linda K.

Easson, Angus

d'Albertis, Deirdre

Mitchell, Charlotte

Routledge

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

Wilkes, Joanne

History & Criticism

Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written between 1835 and 1838 when she was a young mother, her five full-length novels and "The Life of Charlotte Bronte".

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I vol 7: North and South (1855)

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 10

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 9: Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

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