A literature of their own : from Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing

Readers of this new, enlarged edition of the classic feminist study of British women novelists will find themselves delighted by Elaine Showalter's astute and acerbic critical intelligence. Showalter is one of the few scholars who can make her readers rush to their bookshelves to refute her point, or simply to experience again Jane Eyre , The Mill on the Floss , or the bitterly illuminating stories of Katherine Mansfield. Her...