British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and FriendshipAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 184 Seiten Cathy 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. |
Inhalt
Womens Friendship in InterWar Britain | 6 |
a Trade in Work and Desire | 37 |
A Romance of Business 51 | 52 |
A Passionate Beckoning | 74 |
Representing the Lesbian Body | 100 |
Writing about Poetry | 143 |
Bibliographical Notes | 171 |
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April Benson's diary Berry and Bostridge biography Bloomsbury Brittain and Holtby Brittain and Jameson case-studies Chapter Chelsea China Clemence Dane context correspondence critical 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 Kensington 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 Selected Letters 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VB Stella Benson Stella's diary Storm Jameson Testament of Friendship Testament of Youth Tide Tide's University Press unpublished Varengeville Vera Brittain Virago Virginia Woolf W.H. Auden Winifred Holtby woman women's friendship World writing wrote