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This wide-ranging survey examines the works of major writers, including Woolf, Spark, and Bowen, lesser-known authors, such as Margiad Evans and Ann Quin, and Commonwealth writers, including Gordimer, Lessing and Jean Rhys

This book was written in the hope of awakening new readers not just to her enormously good murder mysteries, but to the remarkable breadth of Dorothy L. Sayers's work as a whole--fiction and criticism, religious drama, aesthetic theory, and the magnificent Dante translation that climaxed her achievements--all carried out despite anguishing personal difficulties.

Collection of ten essays on the leading women novelists of today, including Margaret drabble, Susan Hill, P.D. James, jennifer Johnston, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch, Edna O'Brien, Barbara Pym, and Muriel Spark.

See "lesbianism" in the index.

The six women writers discoussed in this book - Olive Schreiner, Edith Wharton, Flora Macdonald Mayor, Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy L. Sayers and Antonia White - are all post-Victorian and lived through a time when ideas about class, religion and the family were changing drastically.

The intriguing phenomenon of the female crime writer is explored in an account of the Grandes Dames of the traditional detective novel, D.L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh, with a chapter on Josephine Tey and consideration of many others. These women, who were of strikingly similar backgrounds, all lead lives which were similarly peaceful, conventional, conformist and 'respectable. But something gave them such violent imaginations...

"This is the first book to deal exclusively with women writers of the liberal-left in the 1930s. The volume has a double purpose: to examine what is radical about women's writing and to draw attention to the richness, diversity and complexity of texts which have often been omitted or marginalised in critical discussion of the period. The contributors offer a broad understanding of the political to encompass a wide range of concerns including matters...

In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and view themselves. The current debates about "natural" childbirth are examined alongside key literary works by well-known writers.

A biography of the New York Yankee slugger whose feat of playing in 2130 consecutive games earned him the nickname "The Iron Man."