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 | 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 |
| 2 | Tour: Women's Writing | Feminists argue that writing by women has been by and large undervalued by literary culture for… | Alex Pryce |
| 3 | Feminist Approaches to Literature | This essay offers a very basic introduction to feminist literary theory, and a compendium of Great… | Kate O'Connor |
| 4 | Olive Schreiner | Daughter of a German missionary father and British mother, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was born on… | Dominic Davies |
| 5 | The Anonymous Jane Austen | Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous authors in the western canon (possibly helped… | Kate O'Connor |
| 6 | Who is Aphra Behn? | So who is Aphra Behn? And what does attempting to answer that question reveal about us? Aphra Behn… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 7 | Frances Burney: the "Mother of English Fiction" | By Kate O'Connor Before there was Jane Austen or even the gleam in Mr. Bronte’s eye that would… | Kate O'Connor |