During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and pri

This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period imm

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. E

The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as