Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist feelings with unionist sympathies. This important new study argues that her own term, -interspace-, can be used to explain her vision of Ireland and her position as an Anglo-Irish woman writer determined to resist categorization or stock solutions at a time of polarization and cultural transition.
This is the first comprehensive study of the writing of Emily Lawless (1845-1913) and includes biographical information, letters, and...
Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist fee...
This important collection contains new readings of the prose works of nineteenth-century Irish women. The contributors, a wide-ranging group of international scholars, place this writing in new contexts and through these rediscovered women's literary perspectives offer a fresh view of the nineteenth century. Among the authors examined are: Elizabeth Hamilton, Lady Blessington, Selina Bunbury, Mrs. Hungerford, M.E. Francis, Lily McManus, Sommerville and Ross.
This important collection contains new readings of the prose works of nineteenth-century Irish women. The contributors, a wide-ranging group of intern...
