CiNii Books - Women's writing in English : Britiain, 1900-1940

In this work, the author presents a history of women's writing in Britain between 1900 and 1945. In the first years of the Edwardian period, women writers were most prominent in the genres of children's writing and romantic fiction. In the first half of the 20th century, women's writing expanded and diversified into prominence in a range of genres including published autobiography and the new field of academic discourse. Women's writing is considered in its social and cultural contexts and the work charts the transition of women's writing from the Edwardian period to the Modernist period. It also looks at the history of the relations, whether helpful, emulative or dismissive between women writers such as Viginia Woolf and Berta Ruck. It also seeks to shed light on the shared themes and concerns of innovative, "lowbrow" and "middlebrow" writers - that they had to contend with the gulf between their perception between themselves as professional and the public perception of "lady writers".

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Women in early 20th-century culture
the conditions of women's writing - the literary market, professionalism, the battle of the brows
the forms of women's experience - the Edwardian transition, the modernist period, alternatives and successors
the modest poets
the fiction of fact - the topical fiction of fact, rural writing, historical fiction
popular writing - romantic fiction, crime fiction, children's book
non-fiction - autobiography, travel writing, academic discourse
some individual writers - Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West.

Volume: ppr ISBN 9780582289154

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Women's Writing in English: Britain 1900-1945 presents a survey of the range of women's writing in the earlier twentieth century, looking in particular at the work of leading modernists including Woolf, Richardson and Rhys. The work of these writers is explored in its historical contexts and in the context of the vital and diverse writings which flourished alongside them. This was a period when women's writing was influenced by the struggles of the women's movement, and when continuing debates about women's writing and feminist programmes were clearly articulated for the first time. Anthea Trodd explores these issues, and considers how women writers related to each other in this period of developing professionalism and divisions between high, middle and lowbrow writing. The individual chapters discuss the leading innovative writers and their relation to documentarist, rural and historical fiction, poetry, autobiography, academic discourse, and the popular genres of romance, crime and children's writing in which women dominated.

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Editor's Preface Author's Preface 1. Women in Early Twentieth Century Culture 2. The Conditions of Women's Writing The Literary Market Professionalism The Battle of the Brows 3. The Forms of Women's Experience The Edwardian Transition The Modernist Period Alternatives and Successors 4. The Modest Poets 5. The Fiction of Fact The Topical Fiction of Fact Rural Writing Historical Fiction 6. Popular Writing Romantic Fiction Crime Fiction Children's Books 7. Non-fiction Autobiography Travel-writing Academic discourse 8. Some Individual Writers Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf Jean Rhys Elizabeth Bowen Sylvia Townsend Warner Rebecca West Chronology General bibliographies Individual authors Notes on lives, major works, criticism Index

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