Self-Made Women
John Sutherland, 11 July 1991
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present
edited by Virginia Blain, Isobel Grundy and Patricia Clements.
Batsford, 1231 pp., £35, August 1990,0 7134 5848 8 Show More
edited by Virginia Blain, Isobel Grundy and Patricia Clements.
Batsford, 1231 pp., £35, August 1990,
The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel
by Richard Altick.
Ohio State, 854 pp., $45, March 1991,0 8142 0518 6 Show More
by Richard Altick.
Ohio State, 854 pp., $45, March 1991,
“... of biography format with a leavening of category entries on such topics as ‘Pseudonyms’, ‘Black Feminist Criticism’, ‘Science Fiction’. There are no plot summaries, no entries on works or on principal characters in works, no cross-reference one-liners. The gaze is unblinkingly on women’s lives as the ground from which women’s writing ... ”