The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children's Literature: Only the Best

ISBN-13: 9781032308272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Elizabeth West

Opis

By focusing on a selection of women working across all aspects of the book production process, this book demonstrates that, both individually and collectively, women capitalized on their position as ‘other’ to the existing male institutions to produce many titles which are still considered ‘classics’ today

O autorze

Elizabeth West received her PhD from the University of Reading, awarded in June 2021 in children’s book history. She received the David Almond Fellowship, Seven Stories/University of Newcastle, 2018 and the Brotherton Fellowship, University of Leeds, 2022. She is currently ECR Fellow at Reading’s Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. Dr West has presented papers at the IRSCL Congress, 2019; Women in Publishing Symposium, 2019; 25th NCRCL MA/IBBY UK Conference, 2018; and Children’s History Society Conference, 2018. Publications include an article in Roundtable, 2(1), 5, and a chapter in the forthcoming The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2000.