An Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950

by Hammill, Faye; Sponenberg, Ashlie; Miskimmin, Esme

• ISBN13: 9780230221772
• ISBN10: 0230221777
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.

Author Biography

FAYE HAMMILL is Lecturer in English at Cardiff University, UK, and has previously taught at the universities of Liverpool and Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (winner of the Pierre Savard Award 2003), and has also published numerous articles on women writers.

ASHLIE SPONENBERG is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at York College-CUNY and has taught at Carlow College in Pittsburgh and the University of Liverpool in the UK. She has published in British women's interwar writing and women's science fiction and is a published poet and freelance writer.

ESME MISKIMMIN teaches at the University of Liverpool. Her PhD explored the detective fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers in the context of the author's theological background, and she is continuing her research into crime fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Encyclopedia Entries

Appendixes

Pseudonym

Minor Writers

Timeline

Annotated Bibliography

Indexes

Authors

Topics

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