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,
“... Q.D. Leavis, Carolyn Heilbrun and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak have whole entries to themselves and Margaret Doody’s Aristotle Detective is singled out for honourable mention in the entry on Detective Fiction. Luce Irigaray is in, but not Cecil Woodham Smith. The biggest vacancy in the Companion is where contemporary best-selling fiction ought to be. The ... ”