The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of…

As one of the founders of feminist criticism in the United Srates, Showalter pioneered a criticism that focused on women’s literary works, such criticism challenged the traditionally male dominated literary…

In France between 1641 and 1782 the romance developed into the novel. Mr. Showalter’s intensive study of the novel, particularly during the critical period 1700-1720, shows that an important movement…

Stories by celebrated female writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton - edited by Elaine Showalter

At the turn of the twentieth century. Central to the novel’s action is the Nebraskan landscape it describes, by turns unyielding and fruitful, bitter and ecstatic.O Pioneers! joins Cather’s My…

Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew…

Presents one of the author’s most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not…

Featuring original contributions by scholars in the field of women’s studies, this invaluable reference illuminates the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler, Susan Sontag…