Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter is the author of A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing, among other books.

In the LRB Archive:

• A Perfect Eel: ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ · 21 June 2012

  • Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, edited by Lyn Pykett

• All I Did Was Marry Him: Laura Bush’s Other Life · 6 November 2008

  • American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

• Every single one matters: The first black female novelist? · 18 August 2005
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  • In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on ‘The Bondwoman’s Narrative’ edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Hollis Robbins

• Mexxed Missages: a road trip through Middle America · 4 November 2004

• The Snowman cometh: Margaret Atwood · 24 July 2003

  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

• Vibrating to the Chord of Queer: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · 6 March 2003

  • Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory edited by Stephen Barber and David Clark

• How to Be Good: Carol Shields · 11 July 2002

  • Unless by Carol Shields

• Das Nuffa Dat and BigGloria3: Up and Down the Academic Ladder · 1 November 2001

  • Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
  • Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews

• At Sundance: The Sundance Film Festival · 22 February 2001

• Fade to Greige: Georgio Armani · 4 January 2001

  • A Dedicated Follower of Fashion by Holly Brubach
  • Fashion Today by Colin McDowell
  • Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Society in Clothing by Diana Crane
  • Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart and Susan North
  • Don We Now Our Gay Appalrel: Gay Men’s Dress in the 20th Century by Shuan Cole
  • The Gallery of Fashion by Aileen Ribeiro
  • Giorgio Armani by Germano Celant and Harold Koda

• Prada Queen: shopping · 10 August 2000

  • Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End by Erika Diane Rappaport

• Miss Fleur gave me the most awful restyle: Joe Orton · 10 December 1998

  • Between Us Girls by Joe Orton
  • ‘Fred & Madge’ and ‘The Visitors’ by Joe Orton

• Even if I married a whole harem of women I’d still act like a bachelor: Isaac Bashevis Singer · 17 September 1998

  • Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Sherman
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life by Janice Hadda

• Diary · 2 April 1998

• Hagiophagy · 2 October 1997

  • Impossible Saints by Michèle Roberts

• Good Girl, Bad Girl · 5 June 1997

  • Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop
  • A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned by Jane Tompkins
  • Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death by Nancy Miller

• Gender Distress · 9 May 1996

  • In the Cut by Susanna Moore
  • The End of Alice by A.M. Homes

• The Word on the Street · 7 March 1996

  • Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous

• Diary · 7 September 1995

• Meg, Jo, Beth and Me · 23 March 1995

  • Little Women directed by Gillian Armstrong

• Diary · 9 February 1995

• Fifteen years on · 20 October 1994

  • No Man’s Land. Vol. III: Letters from the Front by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

• Risky Business · 22 September 1994

  • Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin

• His Only Friend · 8 September 1994

  • Hardy by Martin Seymour-Smith

• Going underground · 12 May 1994

  • The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm

• Diary · 10 March 1994

• The Guru of Suburbia · 16 December 1993

  • My Father’s Guru: A Journey Through Spirituality and Disillusionment by Jeffrey Masson

• The Divine Miss P. · 11 February 1993

  • Sex, Art and American Culture by Camille Paglia

• The Straight and the Bent · 23 April 1992

  • Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault by Jonathan Dollimore
  • Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories by Diana Fuss

• Mr Horse and Mrs Eohippus · 30 January 1992

  • The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography introduction by Ann Lane
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Non-Fiction Reader edited by Larry Ceplair

• Fame at last · 7 November 1991

  • Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook

• Slick Chick · 11 July 1991

  • The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
  • Passions of the Mind by A.S. Byatt

• Shakespeare’s Sister · 25 April 1991

  • Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of ‘The Awakening’ by Emily Toth

• I wish she’d been a dog · 7 February 1991

  • Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart by Charlotte Margolis Goodman
  • Jean Stafford: A Biography by David Roberts

• Baby-Sitter · 14 June 1990

  • Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
  • Lettres à Sartre. Vol II: 1940-1963 by Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
  • Lettres à Sartre. Vol II: 1940-1963 by Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
  • Journal de Guerre, Septembre 1939-Janvier 1941 by Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
  • In the Shadow of Sartre by Liliane Siegel, translated by Barbara Wright

• Pen Men · 20 March 1986

  • Men and Feminism in Modern Literature by Declan Kiberd
  • Women Writing about Men by Jane Miller
  • Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and 20th-century Literature by Peter Schwenger

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