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This is the first text in the new
Women's Writing in English series It presents for the first time a survey of the range of women's writing in the earlier twentieth century, from rural and historical fiction to crime and children's writing, looking in particular at the work of leading modernists including Woolf, Richardson and Rhys.
List of contents
Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
1. Women in Early Twentieth Century Culture
2. The Conditions of Women's Writing
The Literary Market
Professionalism
The Battle of the Brows
3. The Forms of Women's Experience
The Edwardian Transition
The Modernist Period
Alternatives and Successors
4. The Modest Poets
5. The Fiction of Fact
The Topical Fiction of Fact
Rural Writing
Historical Fiction
6. Popular Writing
Romantic Fiction
Crime Fiction
Children's Books
7. Non-fiction
Autobiography
Travel-writing
Academic discourse
8. Some Individual Writers
Katherine Mansfield
Virginia Woolf
Jean Rhys
Elizabeth Bowen
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rebecca West
Chronology
General bibliographies
Individual authors
Notes on lives, major works, criticism
Index
Summary
This is the first text in the new Women's Writing in English series It presents for the first time a survey of the range of women's writing in the earlier twentieth century, from rural and historical fiction to crime and children's writing, looking in particular at the work of leading modernists including Woolf, Richardson and Rhys.
