British Women Writers, 1914-1945: Professional Work and FriendshipAshgate, 2006 - 184 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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... provides evidence of Benson's own ambivalent sexuality and may be seen to represent quasi- homosexual desires . Crucially , Benson's fantasies and denials of lesbian desire are produced through dominant British discourses which asserted ...
... provides evidence of Benson's own ambivalent sexuality and may be seen to represent quasi- homosexual desires . Crucially , Benson's fantasies and denials of lesbian desire are produced through dominant British discourses which asserted ...
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... provides a critical perspective for interpreting Figure 1 , and I quote here a key passage from her book The auto / biographical I : ' Friendship ' can encompass different kinds of ties and bonds between people . Relatedly , the ...
... provides a critical perspective for interpreting Figure 1 , and I quote here a key passage from her book The auto / biographical I : ' Friendship ' can encompass different kinds of ties and bonds between people . Relatedly , the ...
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... provides some evidence for concluding that she heard Benson read the chapter described above , but it is a poem which Holtby enclosed with her letter that provides the incontrovertible evidence . This poem was later published ( with ...
... provides some evidence for concluding that she heard Benson read the chapter described above , but it is a poem which Holtby enclosed with her letter that provides the incontrovertible evidence . This poem was later published ( with ...
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Geographies of Work and Pleasure | 15 |
Friendship Travel and Letters | 26 |
15 | 33 |
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April associated Benson's diary Berry and Bostridge biography Bloomsbury Brittain and Holtby Brittain and Jameson case-studies Chapter Chelsea China Clemence Dane context correspondence critical Crucially cultural discourses discussion E.M. Delafield Elizabeth Robins emotional erotic exchange fantasy feel female friendship feminism feminist fiction gender Hamilton 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 modern Naomi Mitchison narrative paper passionate period pleasure poetry political produced professional published quoted Rebecca West reference relationship repr reveals Review 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