Product Description: Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women’s suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus...read more

Product Description: This wide-ranging, historically rich account of women's fiction in the 1960s and 1970s relates changes in the social structure of Britain and the US to representations of women's experience. Maroula Joannou examines a time of innovation, hope, and change in the history of literature and the history of women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to examine what is radical about women's writing and to highlight the richness, complexity, and diversity of women's writing of the period. Writers discussed include Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen, Vera Brittain, Katherine Burdekin, Nancy Cunard, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Stevi Smith, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Margot Heinemann, who died in 1992, was a great scholar of the Renaissance period. As a Marxist, she inspired many with her commitment to the idea that cultural activity was central to the continuing struggle against oppression. These writers consider cultural theory in her honour...read more

Product Description: This thought-provoking study offers a radically new perspective on the literature of the interwar period. Writing from a feminist-materialist perspective, the author examines novels of sensibility, domestic fictions, lesbian writing, autobiography, speculative fiction and anti-fascist writing by Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamond Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall and many others...read more

Product Description: Margot Heinemann, who died in 1992, was a great scholar of the Renaissance period. As a Marxist, she inspired many with her commitment to the idea that cultural activity was central to the continuing struggle against oppression. These writers consider cultural theory in her honour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)