Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity - by M Joannou (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

About the Author

MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History and volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women's Writing.