Elaine Showalter

Despite GJ 's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant passed her over in The...

Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter in the Guardian was highly critical.

SSE was viewed with ambivalence by a later generation of critics who sought to reclaim women's literature. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar , for example, read Ellis as a willing captive in a separate sphere...

During her marriage, Zoe becomes acquainted with a Catholic priest named Everhard Borrows who doubts his faith. They fall in love, and Everhard feels compelled to leave the priesthood for Zoe. One of the novel's...

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...

She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897.Elaine Showalter wrote the introduction to Virago 's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell wrote that of Thoemmes , 1994.

The undated second issue of the first edition added a frontispiece. The monograph essay is available online at the Victorian Women Writers Project at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/craik/thoughts.html#Text. It was also republished along with DMC 's On...

Elaine Showalter 's biography, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe, 2016, claimed that Howe possessed the subversive intellect of an Emily Dickinson , the political and philosophical interests of an Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In this novel the motherless narrator-heroine, Nell Le Strange, falls in love with a handsome young soldier, but false stories of his infidelity (with a letter forged by Nell's sister) break up the affair. Nell...

This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a...

The woman of the title story is experiencing the liberation of second-wave feminism, but working a heavy double shift, with a brilliant and enviable career but a resentful, punitive husband. The smile is purely a...

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...