Germaine Greer

Standard Name: Greer, Germaine
Birth Name: Germaine Greer
Pseudonym: Germaine
Pseudonym: Dr G.
Pseudonym: Earth Rose
Pseudonym: Rose Blight
GG , scholar and media person, was one of the early and most important voices in the explosion of feminist theory and action in the 1970s. She also worked in journalism and published a satirical gardening column. She has written academic literary history, and monographs of social analysis on a number of burning topics: population control, the status of women, international relations between rich and poor countries, and environmental damage and conservation. GG has founded and run a journal devoted to the study of women's writing. Her editorial production includes a ground-breaking anthology of seventeenth-century women's poetry, as well as collected works by individual early female poets, and broader poetry selections. Her book about discovering her father's mysterious past combines biography with autobiography.
Black-and-white photo of Germaine Greer, looking at the camera and holding a tall bunch of sticks as she stretches one leg over a fence, March 1971.

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Textual Features Carol Rumens
In her introduction CR calls for quality and professionalism. Those women writers, she says, who have been concerned with the stern art of poetry as an end in itself have tended to be swamped by...
Textual Features Anne Finch
Although AF is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet....
Textual Production Anne Wharton
Besides the anthologies mentioned by her editors Greer and Hastings , there were at least fourteen reprints during the first half of the eighteenth century of AW 's song beginning How hardly I conceal'd my tears.
qtd. in
Londry, Michael. “On the Use of First-Line Indices for Researching English Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century, c. 1660-1830, with Special Reference to Women Poets”. The Library, Vol.
5
, No. 1, Mar. 2004, pp. 12-38.
26
Textual Production Viola Meynell
VM 's stories written over a period of thirty years were collected as Kissing the Rod, and Other Stories (a title later used by Germaine Greer for an anthology of seventeenth-century women's poetry).
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
284
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Anne Wharton
In their edition of AW , Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings expressed the opinion that further poems by her were likely to surface. This happened within less than a decade. A newly discovered manuscript of...
Textual Production Katherine Philips
KP and her circle had no objection to appearing in print as well as circulating in manuscript, as witness the Cartwright volume and the inclusion of several in Henry Lawes , Second Book of Airs...
Textual Production Mary Carey
These had been written over a number of years. MC 's own manuscript, formerly owned by the family of the poet Alice Meynell , is now the property of scholar Germaine Greer .
Healey, R. M. “Interview with Germaine Greer”. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol.
180
, Mar. 1999, pp. 26-34.
29-30
The...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
JC 's writing and public work shows a particular concern with the figure of the writer, as deeply compulsive and bound up with self-recognition. Because of this, she says, she muddled poetry with identity, and...
Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
Its full title was Order and Disorder; or, The World Made and Undone. Meditations on the Creation and the Fall As it is recorded in the Beginning of Genesis. Anthony à Wood ascribed it...
Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
The novel is dedicated to her friend Mary Bastard .
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
68-9
Germaine Greer later borrowed this novel's title for her book about women painters, 1979.
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Having contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway? Essays in celebration of PLR 's Twentieth Anniversary, 1999, published by the Society of Authors , HM went on to write another on recent...
Textual Production Eva Figes
EF said later that she wrote this book because she felt angry and wanted to change people's attitudes
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989.
74
(her usual motive for non-fiction, she wrote later, was anger or outrage). While working on her...
Textual Production Margaret Forster
MF 's publisher suggested that she should write this book. Her first response was that it ought to be written by a proper feminist
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(14 September 1984): 11
like Germaine Greer . Her book takes...
Textual Production Damaris Masham
Editor Germaine Greer and her collaborators suspect on grounds of style that DM is the author of a poem included in John Norris 's Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters, Occasionally...
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
CM 's manuscripts of poems and short stories and her unpublished letters are held in the British Library and in the Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY Buffalo . The librarians at Buffalo are said to...

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