Women's university narratives, 1890-1945 part II
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Women's university narratives, 1890-1945 part II
Routledge, 2018
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Description
The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that had swept through the higher education system in the late nineteenth century. Among these narratives, a significant subgroup focused on the lives of women students, newly admitted to the structures of higher education system, their presence still stridently, and sometimes even violently, opposed, especially at Oxbridge. These novels and short stories collected here, largely unknown today, were widely discussed and debated in the public sphere during the early twentieth century, contributing not only to the formation of public knowledge and opinion about education through cultural figures like the 'Girton Girl' or the 'undergraduette,' but also sparking debate about many wider social and cultural issues, from the place of the women writer in the literary scene to the emergence of new discourses around psychology and the body. The majority have not been reprinted since their original publication, and until now have been rarely available to scholars. The publication of Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, therefore, provides a major new resource for scholarship in many areas, including women's studies, educational history, and literary and cultural modernism.
Table of Contents
Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945: Part II
Edited by Anna Bogen
Volume 1
Contents
General Introduction
Part 1:
Introduction to Neapolitan House
Neapolitan Ice (1928), Renee Haynes
Part 2:
Introduction to Hot House
Hot-House (1933), Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan
Volume 2
Part 1:
Introduction: Rosy-Fingered Dawn and Short Fiction
Rosy-Fingered Dawn (1934), Rose Marie Hodgson
"From Doubt to Faith," (1896), J. G. G.
"Bits in the Life of a Missionary Student" (1917)
"At Oxford: Some Letters from an Undergraduette" (1929)
Part 2:
Introduction: Our Young Barbarians: or, Letters from Oxford
Our Young Barbarians: or, Letters from Oxford (1935), Barbara Silver
"Girton College" and "Newnham College" (1893-4), L. T. Meade
"Up: a Magic Word" (1929), C. Hughes
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