Women in literature

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke - a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose t...

Elaine Showalter, author of the classic 'A Literature of Their Own', now turns to her own heritage, bringing us a comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present.

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others.

A feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated.

Trollope is usually seen as a faithful mirror of Victorian England. This text examines the conundrum of how a great novelist could both accept the conventional values of the time and yet be able to see and sympathise with the impossible situations that Victorian women often found themselves.

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', 'The Wife of Bath', arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, h...