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. -----------------------------------
# Title Description Contributor
1 Women Poets Dr Jane Potter looks at a range of women poets who wrote during, and in the years that followed,… Jane Potter
2 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
3 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
4 The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance The novelist Patricia Duncker gives the keynote lecture at the Life-Writing and Female Celebrity… Patricia Duncker
5 Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse Laura Salisbury and Sowon Park give a talk about Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. The chair is… Sowon Park, Laura Salisbury, Ben Morgan
6 What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are… Sandie Byrne
7 The real Jane Austen: A life in small things Biographer Paula Byrne (Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the… Paula Byrne
8 Postcolonial Women Writers Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page… Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
9 Mary Leapor Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished… Jennifer Batt
10 English and Gender Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by… Deborah Cameron
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