The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction: Modernism, Modernity, and the Middlebrow in Context

   1. Introduction: Modernism, Modernity, and the Middlebrow in Context

      • Maroula Joannou

      Pages 1-20

3. Mapping Modernism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Gender in Modernism

      • Bonnie Kime Scott

      Pages 23-39

   3. Exemplary Intermodernists: Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller, and Naomi Mitchison

      • Kristin Bluemel

      Pages 40-56

   4. Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Modernism

      • Jane Goldman

      Pages 57-77

   5. The Art of Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner

      • Maud Ellmann

      Pages 78-93

4. Cultural Hierarchy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. The Feminine Middlebrow Novel

      • Nicola Humble

      Pages 97-111

   3. Women and Comedy

      • Sophie Blanch

      Pages 112-128

   4. The Woman’s Historical Novel

      • Diana Wallace

      Pages 129-143

   5. ‘Queens of Crime’: The ‘Golden Age’ of Crime Fiction

      • Cora Kaplan

      Pages 144-157

5. Gendered Genres

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Poetry, 1920–1945

      • Jane Dowson

      Pages 161-181

   3. Drama, 1920–1945

      • Rebecca D’Monté

      Pages 182-198

   4. The Woman Journalist, 1920–1945

      • Catherine Clay

      Pages 199-214

6. The Mobile Woman

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Caught in the Triple Net? Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Women Writers

      • Katie Gramich

      Pages 217-232

   3. Women’s Writing in the Second World War

      • Gill Plain

      Pages 233-249

   4. Women Writing Empire

      • Lisa Regan

      Pages 250-263

Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

• women's writing
• modernism
• aesthetics
• drama
• English literature
• fiction
• gender
• Modernism
• novel
• poetry
• women
• Woolf
• British and Irish Literature

'The essays offer a detailed outline of the diverse cultural, historical and political circumstances surrounding women's literary production in the first half of the twentieth century, paving the way for further in-depth engagement with these writers, and providing a critical overview that will be an invaluable support to such studies.' - Gemma Moss, The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

• Anglia Ruskin University, England

  Maroula Joannou

Sophie Blanch Lecturer In English Literature, University Of Surrey, UK Catherine Clay Senior Lecturer In English, Nottingham Trent University, UK Rebecca D'monté Senior Lecturer, University Of The West Of England, UK Jane Dowson Reader In Twentieth-Century Literature, De Montfort University, UK Maud Ellmann Randy L. And Melvin R. Berlin Professor Of The Development Of The Novel In English, University Of Chicago, USA Jane Goldman Reader In English Literature, University Of Glasgow, UK Katie Gramich Professor In English Literature, Cardiff University, UK Nicola Humble Professor Of English, Roehampton University, UK Cora Kaplan Professor Emerita Of English, Southampton University, UK Deborah Longworth Senior Lecturer, University Of Birmingham, UK Gill Plain Professor, St Andrews University, UK Lisa Regan Lecturer In English Literature, University Of Gloucestershire, UK Bonnie Kime Scott Professor Of Women's Studies, San Diego State University, USA Diana Wallace Professor Of English Literature, University Of Glamorgan, UK Tory Young Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

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