Synopses & Reviews
This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.
Synopsis
Now available in paperback for the first time, this is the first reference book to concentrate on early twentieth-century women's writing. It includes detailed entries on 185 authors, ranging from the canonical (Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf) through the popular (Agatha Christie, Nancy Mitford, Beatrix Potter) to the largely forgotten (Olive Moore, Barbara Comyns, Winifred Watson). The book opens up whole new fields of research, providing information and references relating to a group of fascinating authors in need of rediscovery.
The encyclopedia also provides contextualising material, with 76 concise introductions to related topics, including organisations, movements, genres and publications, as well as literary and historical events. Topics covered include Bloomsbury, Children's Literature, Libraries, Fashion and Youth Culture, Sexology, Mass Observation, Education and the Welfare State. An integral timeline provides a framework for the entries, and an annotated bibliography of 100 books (including criticism, history, reference, and anthologies) is an invaluable point of reference.
About the Author
FAYE HAMMILL is Lecturer in English at Cardiff University, UK, and has previously taught at the universities of Liverpool and Birmingham, UK. She is the author of
Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (winner of the Pierre Savard Award 2003), and has also published numerous articles on women writers.
ASHLIE SPONENBERG is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at York College-CUNY and has taught at Carlow College in Pittsburgh and the University of Liverpool in the UK. She has published in British women's interwar writing and women's science fiction and is a published poet and freelance writer.
ESME MISKIMMIN teaches at the University of Liverpool. Her PhD explored the detective fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers in the context of the author's theological background, and she is continuing her research into crime fiction.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * Encyclopedia Entries * Appendixes * Pseudonym * Minor Writers * Timeline * Annotated Bibliography * Indexes * Authors * Topics