Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands
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This section presents a small, miscellaneous set of resources related to women's writing and writing women. You can find much more in our library.
The essay Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands by Professor Ros Ballaster provides context and discussion, and points to further resources that you can explore. We hope they will give you a sense of the richness and variety of women’s creativity.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | Phillis Wheatley | The Wikipedia article about Phillis/Phyllis Wheatley contains information about her life and… | Wikipedia |
| 2 | Phillis Wheatley | Engraving of Phyllis Wheatley part of frontispiece to her 'Poems on Various Subjects...'.… | |
| 3 | Celebrating women's writing: the pen in their hands | In the 1980s feminism changed the study of literature forever when it challenged what we term the '… | Ros Ballaster |
| 4 | A Play in Fragments by Maria Edgeworth - A Surviving Manuscript | The surviving manuscript of an unpublished play by Maria Edgeworth c.1811, found in MS Eng misc. f.… | Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster |
| 5 | A Play in Fragments by Maria Edgeworth - A Surviving Manuscript | Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster | |
| 6 | Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments, a play by Maria Edgeworth | A performance of the play, Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments, by Maria Edgeworth. | Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster |
| 7 | Women Poets | Dr Jane Potter looks at a range of women poets who wrote during, and in the years that followed,… | Jane Potter |
| 8 | Elleke Boehmer's The Shouting in the Dark and Other Southern Writings | Emma Parker interviews Elleke Boehmer about her award-winning novel The Shouting in the Dark (2015… | Elleke Boehmer, Emma Parker |
| 9 | Literature and Gender, 1660-1760 | In this introductory lecture, Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth… | Kathleen Keown |
| 10 | Male memory, female subject: the case of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft | Janet Todd gives the keynote lecture at the Silence in the Archives conference held at Wolfson… | Janet Todd |