British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and FriendshipRoutledge, 20.09.2017 - 194 Seiten Catherine Clay's persuasively argued and rigorously documented study examines women's friendships during the period between the two world wars. Building on extensive new archival research, the book's organizing principle is a series of literary-historical case-studies that explore the practices, meanings and effects of friendship within a network of British women writers, who were all loosely connected to the feminist weekly periodical Time and Tide. Clay considers the letters and diaries, as well as fiction, poetry, autobiographies and journalistic writings, of authors such as Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Stella Benson, to examine women's friendships in relation to two key contexts: the rise of the professional woman writer under the shadow of literary modernism and historic shifts in the cultural recognition of lesbianism crystallized by The Well of Loneliness trial in 1928. While Clay's study presents substantial evidence to support the crucial role close and enduring friendships played in women's professional achievements, it also boldly addresses the limitations and denials of these relationships. Producing 'biographies of friendship' untold in existing author studies, her book also challenges dominant accounts of women's friendships and advances new ways for thinking about women's friendship in contemporary debates. |
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... later , Naomi Mitchison described Time and Tide as ' the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class , in some ways ahead of its time ' , which in the early 1930s was ' in full flood , with a number of good authors writing ...
... later , Naomi Mitchison described Time and Tide as ' the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class , in some ways ahead of its time ' , which in the early 1930s was ' in full flood , with a number of good authors writing ...
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... later . For , knowing that this material exists , how can I not look , and then , having looked , pretend I haven't seen ? This dilemma has not lessened now that I am preparing for publication this book in which I quote from these ...
... later . For , knowing that this material exists , how can I not look , and then , having looked , pretend I haven't seen ? This dilemma has not lessened now that I am preparing for publication this book in which I quote from these ...
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... later in Hong Kong she joined a League of Nations committee for enquiring into the International Traffic in Women . See Joy Grant for an account of Benson's involvement in this campaign , in Stella Benson : A Biography ( London ...
... later in Hong Kong she joined a League of Nations committee for enquiring into the International Traffic in Women . See Joy Grant for an account of Benson's involvement in this campaign , in Stella Benson : A Biography ( London ...
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... later by women from a younger generation of post - war feminists , Lady Rhondda built Time and Tide into a paper of considerable stature . With an early readership of between twelve and fifteen thousand , by the 1930s Time and Tide was ...
... later by women from a younger generation of post - war feminists , Lady Rhondda built Time and Tide into a paper of considerable stature . With an early readership of between twelve and fifteen thousand , by the 1930s Time and Tide was ...
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... later drama criticisms , but this connection also introduces a different set of interests . St John lived with Edy Craig ( daughter of the famous actress , Ellen Terry ) and ' Tony ' ( Clare ) Atwood in Smallhythe , Kent . This ménage à ...
... later drama criticisms , but this connection also introduces a different set of interests . St John lived with Edy Craig ( daughter of the famous actress , Ellen Terry ) and ' Tony ' ( Clare ) Atwood in Smallhythe , Kent . This ménage à ...
Inhalt
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a Trade in Work and Desire | 37 |
A Romance of Business | 51 |
A Passionate Beckoning | 74 |
Representing the Lesbian Body | 100 |
A Triadic Model of Friendship and Desire | 126 |
Conclusion | 158 |
Bibliographical Notes | 168 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 180 |
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April associated Benson's diary Berry and Bostridge biography Bloomsbury British Brittain and Holtby Brittain and Jameson case-studies Chapter China Clemence Dane context correspondence critical Crucially cultural discourses discussion Doan E.M. Delafield emotional erotic exchange fantasy Fashioning Sapphism feel female friendship feminism feminist fiction gender heterosexual History Holtby's homosexual husband Ibid intense intimacy Katherine Mansfield Lady Rhondda later Laura Hutton lesbian desire literary London Macmillan male Margaret Rhondda Marion Shaw marriage Mitchison's poem Modernism Naomi Mitchison narrative paper passionate period pleasure poetry political produced professional published quoted Rebecca West reference relationship repr reveals romantic friendship Sapphic Sapphism SB diary sexual significant SJ to VB Stella Benson Stella's diary Storm Jameson Testament of Friendship Testament of Youth Tide Tide's University Press unpublished Varengeville Vera Brittain Virago Virginia Woolf W.H. Auden Winifred Holtby woman women writers women's friendship World writing wrote