Women's Writing from Wales Before 1914

ISBN-13: 9781032088952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Jane Aaron

Opis

This collection works to rediscover and reassess a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-language Women’s Canon Before 1800  2. Cambrian Bards and Antiquarian Romantics: Anglophone Women Poets from Eighteenth-Century Wales  3. "Local and Contemporary": Reception, Community and the Poetry of Ann Julia Hatton ("Ann of Swansea")  4. "At Once Illogical and Unfair": Jane Williams (Ysgafell) and the Government Report on Education in Mid Nineteenth-Century Wales  5. Adapting the Risorgimento: Ideas of Liberal Nationhood in L. M. Spooner’s Country Landlords (1860)  6. "Our Poor Land of Wales": National Identity and National Heroism in Women’s Historical Fictions  7. Welsh Women’s Industrial Fiction 1880–1910  8. Gwyneth Vaughan, Eluned Morgan and the Emancipation of Welsh Women

O autorze

Jane Aaron is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales, UK. Her publications include A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (1991), Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg [Pure as Steel: The Welsh Woman in 19th Century Women's Literature] (1998), Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales (2007), and Welsh Gothic (2013). She is also the general editor of Honno Press’s Welsh Women’s Classics series.