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The ‘wilds of Brompton’: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women Writers’ Early Careers in the Sociable London Suburbs Open Access
Karen Bourrier and others
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 29, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 363–382, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcae012
Published: 13 July 2024
... on the suburbs as fertile grounds for the careers of Victorian women writers, we add a spatial dimension to Robert Darnton’s well-known print network, placing the private home, a site of literary sociability, as a central node in public print networks. mapping digital humanities women's writing London...
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‘I Will Tell Nothing that I Did Not See’: British Women's Travel Writing, Art and the Science of Connoisseurship, 1776–1860
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Caroline Palmer
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 2015, Pages 248–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv028
Published: 13 June 2015
..., conveying to British audiences the most recent developments in Italian and German connoisseurship, as well as becoming significant authorities in their own right. women's writing art criticism travel writing connoisseurship Anna Miller Mariana Starke Anna Jameson Elizabeth Eastlake Maria Callcott...
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Feminism, Nationalism, Separatism? The Case of Alice Stopford Green
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Helen Kingstone
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 December 2014, Pages 442–456, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2014.961732
Published: 01 December 2014
... Green Irish nationalism feminism women's writing separatism historian historiography professionalization In the introduction to her translation of Julia Kristeva's ‘Women's Time’, Alice Jardine suggests that ‘Kristeva writes in a kind of “future perfect”’. 1 This tense...
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Writing For or Writing About Children? The Representation of Childhood in Contemporary Italian Fiction
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Laura Rorato
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 145–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs068
Published: 25 March 2013
..., as C and T&A respectively. childhood studies poetics of childhood Italian literature children's literature Ramondino, Fabrizia Tamaro, Susanna Vallorani, Nicoletta women's writing In an age when one is constantly confronted with the exploitation and abuse of children...
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Writing Age: Annie Ernaux's Les années
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Shirley Jordan
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 138–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqq080
Published: 21 January 2011
.... This article analyses Ernaux's powerfully-articulated perceptions of what it means to grow old, with a particular focus on Les années (2008). French women's writing life-writing Ernaux, Annie ageing Les années ‘Old age they say is like this; but it isn't. It's different.’ 1...
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Ni Ennemie, Ni Rivale: Female Friendship in Works by Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Noëlle Revaz
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Joy Charnley
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 53–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqm118
Published: 17 December 2007
... of sixty years, the theme of female friendship has been dealt with in different ways by women writers, and establishes links with changing attitudes to the women's movement. Switzerland women's writing feminism friendship littérature romande novel Rivaz, Alice Grobéty, Anne-Lise Revaz...
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The Mirage of the New World: Eveline Hasler's Ibicaba, das Paradies in den Köpfen
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Barbara Burns
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 76–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqm121
Published: 17 December 2007
...-century German literature women's writing historical novel Swiss history Brazil economic migration people trafficking Nineteenth-century European history has many examples of people who abandoned their homeland en masse for socio-economic reasons and sailed in overcrowded...
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The Man-Woman and the Idiot: Madame de Staël's Public/Private Life
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Angelica Goodden
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, JANUARY 2007, Pages 34–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cql117
Published: 01 January 2007
... the retired lives of English female novelists, and the general conviction that women's writing should not properly be devoted to current affairs. This, of course, begs the very question that Staël and her fellows were so insistently asking; yet it made no difference for their sex to declare and even believe...
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Imagining the Pain and Peril of Seventeenth-century Childbirth:: Travail and Deliverance in the Making of an Early Modern World
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Sharon Howard
Social History of Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 3, December 2003, Pages 367–382, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/16.3.367
Published: 01 December 2003
... authority as well as identity. childbirth, pregnancy, providentialism, piety, torture, pain, spiritual autobiography, women's writing, England, Civil Wars SHM 16_3 367-382 FINAL 13/11/03 1:16 pm Page 367
Social History of Medicine Vol. 16 No. 3 © The Society for the Social History...
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Victorian Women Hymn‐Writers
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J. R. Watson
Published: 12 August 1999
... Anne Bronte Elliott Greenwell Havergal hymns for children Christina Rossetti single woman Waring women's writing They also serve who patiently But fold their hands, and wait . (Anna Montague) Studies of the great nineteenth‐century women novelists, such as Charlotte...
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Tassibee: a case study
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Khalida Luqman
Published: 21 March 2018
... in the 1960s. These women's writing reflects memories of life prior to arriving in the UK, at which point everything changed for them. The different cultural lifestyle in the UK was not something that the women could ever have imagined. They found it hard to adapt to the British weather, and experienced...
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Emotions in community research
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Zanib Rasool
Published: 21 March 2018
...This chapter argues that emotions help people with ‘meaning making’, and offer different experiences of the world through a different lens. It does so in the context of women's writing, as writing connects ordinary women and gives them the opportunity to articulate feelings not expressed or shared...
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Feminist Whims: Women’s Education in an Inter-Imperial Framework
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Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă
Published: 15 October 2022
... to Austro-Hungarian imperial policies, other Transylvanian nationalisms, and other feminist nationalisms aligned with their interpretations of inter-imperial history. The chapter also looks into women's writing featuring nationalism and cosmopolitanism. education feminism feminist literary criticism...
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Published: 07 July 2011
...This chapter focuses on the Contemporary Women's Writing in French (CWWF) seminar and research network, together with its related activities. Through its activities, events, and publication outputs, CWWF has made a strong contribution to French Studies in the UK, and over the past ten years has...
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‘Where is she?’ Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen
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Jessica Gildersleeve
Published: 01 August 2015
... ambivalence women's writing Recognition of Katherine Mansfield’s influence on Elizabeth Bowen is not new. Studies of both writers frequently note a kinship that Saralyn R. Daly suggests might be seen as a result of writers during the 1920s ‘exploring the short story medium with similar needs for expression...
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The Middlebrows of the Hogarth Press: Rose Macaulay, E. M. Delafield and Cultural Hierarchies in Interwar Britain
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Melissa Sullivan
Published: 19 October 2010
...This chapter takes a look at the Hogarth Press within the wider landscape of the early twentieth-century women's writing, demonstrating the degree to which the Press's circles intersected with other circles that are considered outside its purview. It suggests that the Woolfs broke away from...
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Epilogue
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Grace S. Fong
Published: 08 May 2008
...This concluding chapter offers some final remarks on the subject of women's writing after the late imperial timeframe taken up in this book (the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries). It argues that prior to the new forms of subjectivity constructed in Chinese modernity...
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“The most unaccountable of machinery” The Orlando Project produces a textbase of one’s own
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Susan Brown and others
Published: 01 June 2013
...This chapter considers how digital technologies have opened up new methods for the creation, dissemination, and critical reception of literary and cultural histories. It provides an overview of the collaboratively created digital textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from ...
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Configurations of Authority: Feminism, Modernism, and Mass Culture, 1881–1917
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Catriona Kelly
Published: 02 April 1998
... in this chapter also raised the phenomenon of the diversity of women's writing during this period. Alexander II Nicholas I radicalism Russian revolution and revolutionary politics Solovyov Vladimir education feminism employment women and modernization Efimenko Aleksandra 1848 Varguza–1918 Lyubochka Farm...
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Hope
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Shulamit S. Magnus
Published: 10 December 2015
... Maimon Solomon Mendelssohn Moses Moseley Marcus Zipes Jack Pauline Wengeroff Memoirs of a Grandmother antisemitism Zionism Jewish women's writing Jewish literature Jewish people Evertthing that Wengeroff valued in traditional culture—above all, subordination of personal wishes...
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