Margaret Anne Doody

Margaret Anne Doody is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is the author of The True Story of the Novel

In the LRB Archive:

• No Fol-de-Rols: men in suits · 14 November 2002

  • The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England 1550-1850 by David Kuchta

• Royal Classic Knitwear: Iris and Laura · 5 October 2000

  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

• The One We’d Like to Meet on myth · 6 July 2000

  • Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger
  • The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger

• I am an irregular verb on Laetitia Pilkington · 22 January 1998

  • Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington edited by A.C. Elias

• Boom and Bust · 19 June 1997

  • A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom

• Docility Rampant · 31 October 1996

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Romance Writings edited by Isobel Grundy

• Never mind the neighbours · 4 April 1996

  • Delphine by Germaine de Staël, translated by Avriel Goldberger

• Poxy Doxies · 14 December 1995

  • Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by Germaine Greer

• Studied Luxury · 20 April 1995

  • No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton by Shari Benstock
  • Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life by Eleanor Dwight

• Fear of Rabid Dogs · 18 August 1994

  • Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time by Marina Warner

• In praise of manly piety · 9 June 1994

  • The 18th-Century Hymn in England by Donald Davie

• Where a man can be a man · 16 December 1993

  • All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

• Vibrations · 5 August 1993

  • The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in 18th-century Britain by G.J. Barker-Benfield
  • Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context by Ann Jessie van Sant
  • Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the 18th Century by Philip Rawlings
  • Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton

• Very very she · 22 April 1993

  • The Works of Aphra Behn. Vol. I: Poetry edited by Janet Todd
  • Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn, edited by Janet Todd

• Dressed in black · 11 March 1993

  • The Furies by Janet Hobhouse

• Dear Miss Boothby · 5 November 1992

  • The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Vol. I: 1731-1772, Vol. II: 1773-1776, Vol. III: 1777-1781 edited by Bruce Redford

• Women beware men · 23 July 1992

  • Backlash: The Undeclared War against Women by Susan Faludi
  • The War against Women by Marilyn French

• Whig Dreams · 27 February 1992

  • A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe, edited by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens
  • James Thomson: A Life by James Sambrook

• Preceding Backwardness · 9 January 1992

  • Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel by Elizabeth Bergan Brophy
  • Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

• Taking it up again · 21 March 1991

  • Henry James and Revision by Philip Horne

• Tit for Tat · 21 December 1989

  • Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale

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