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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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
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