Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than...
Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's...
In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days and death of parents. "Relations" offers a portrait of a middle-class kinship, beginning with her parents' long marriage. Here are the tensions of belonging and yet not belonging to an English middle-class. More than two hundred years of English history are present in these portraits, which show the gradual emancipation of women, the effects of empire on family life, and the importance of religion, education,...
In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illumi...
