Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0713458488 9780713458480 [GB]

Pavilion Books. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Pavilion Books ISBN 0713458488 9780713458480 [GB]

ISBN10: 0713458488, ISBN13: 9780713458480, [publisher: B T Batsford, London] Hardcover First Edition HEAVY. xvi, 1231pp, indexes of topics, of names (chronological) and of cross-references. Tinted end-papers. Three marks in red ink on the third entry otherwise the book is clean. Prev owner's name with date by the upper edge of the front flyleaf. There is a small mark on the upper page edges. Cloth boards in protected dust-jacket which has a slightly faded spine. The bulk of the entries are biographical, but key topic entries are also included, dealing with important genres, movements and institutions which have affected women's writing. All entries are alphabetically arranged. Size: 8vo
[Ashmore, QLD, Australia] [Publication Year: 1990]

B.T. Batsford, London, first edition, Date: 1990. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xvi, 1231 pp. Women writers have flourished wherever English is established as a major language. This, the first fully international guide to the subject features the contribution of women both to the older literatures of Britain, Ireland and North America, and to those of more recent origin in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Australasia, Asia and Africa. The bulk of the entries [ some 2,700] are biographical, but [about 60] key topic entries are also included, dealing with important genres, movements and institutions which have affected women's writing (for example: autobiography, circulating libraries, feminist theory and film criticism, publishing, slave narratives). All entries are alphabetically arranged, and a separate list of entry headings and cross-references enables readers to pursue particular interests. The authors covered are of many kinds - not only poets, novelists and dramatists but other writers such as diarists, translators and spiritual autobiographers. Some are already part of the established canon of literature and have a large body of criticism devoted to them, while others have been victims of repeated condescension and inaccuracy or are almost entirely unknown. Each biographical entry as well as outlining the life and work of its subject, aims to set her in the context of her time and to make clear her importance or interest today. Her writings, both published and ...