A literature of their own

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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 Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand --- to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - --once household names, now largely forgotten.

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The advent of female literature promises woman's view of life, woman's experience: in other words, a new element.

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• A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to LessingPrinceton University Press1977-01-01
• A Literature of Their OwnPaperbackTime Warner Books UK1975-01-01
• Literature of Their OwnPaperbackPrinceton Univ Pr1978-03-01
• A literature of their ownVirago1982-01-01
• A literature of their ownVirago1999-01-01
• A literature of their ownPrinceton University Press1999-01-01