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 | 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 |
| 2 | Literature and Gender, 1660-1760 | In this introductory lecture, Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth… | Kathleen Keown |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored | Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane… | Kathryn Sutherland |
| 5 | Mary Leapor | Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished… | Jennifer Batt |
| 6 | Olive Schreiner | Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist,… | Elleke Boehmer |
| 7 | Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine | Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-… | Faith Binckes |
| 8 | George Eliot - A Very Large Brain | Dr Catherine Brown gives a talk on George Eliot and her influences | Catherine Brown |