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"These brief biographies of twelve women novelists--thinkers, originators, stylists, "best sellers" --cover their lives and work and give some insight into their characters and temperaments. The classics take the lead: Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the ill-starred Brontë sisters. A variety of contemporary novelists follows: Agatha Christie, acknowledged Queen of Crime; Mary Stuart, whose unique way with the suspense story thrills...
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"A Bronte Encyclopedia is a complete guide to the life and work of the most notable literary family of the nineteenth century. Comprising approximately 2000 alphabetically arranged entries, this authoritative volume: brings to light the significant people and places that influenced the Brontes' lives; defines and describes the Brontes' fictional characters and settings; incorporates original literary judgments and analyses of characters and motives;...
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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...
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Publisher description: The Oxford Companion to the Brontës aims to provide both comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës--the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, together with their father and their brother Branwell--all of whom were published writers. This is a unique and authoritative reference book for the research student and the general reader. The A-Z format, extensive cross-referencing,...
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A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris...
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