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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| 21 | Jane Austen's House in Chawton | Jane Austen lived here, in Chawton, during her final years. | Rudi Riet |
| 22 | Postcolonial Women Writers | Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page… | Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
| 23 | Tour: Women's Writing | Feminists argue that writing by women has been by and large undervalued by literary culture for… | Alex Pryce |
| 24 | Manuscript of 'A route of evanescense' | Original manuscript of Emily Dickinson's (1830-1886) poem "A route of evanescense" which she sent… | |
| 25 | Emily Dickinson Poems Book Cover | ||
| 26 | Southerne Oroonoko 1776 Performance | Handout of 1776 performance of Oroonoko Scan of public domain document. Published 23 November 1776 | |
| 27 | Katherine Mansfield | ||
| 28 | Feminist Approaches to Literature | This essay offers a very basic introduction to feminist literary theory, and a compendium of Great… | Kate O'Connor |
| 29 | Olive Schreiner | Daughter of a German missionary father and British mother, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was born on… | Dominic Davies |
| 30 | Woolf on Behn | Chapter four of Virgina Woolf's critical text 'A Room of One's Own' discusses the influence and… |