Edith Holden's Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (1906, published posthumously 1977) is one of the bestselling books in British publishing history.Yet critical reactions to this work have puzzled over both its canonical status and, in the light of the internationally successful merchandising industry that the diary has spawned, Holden's own status as a public figure. Is she a representative 'ordinary' woman or a more familiar type of celebrity, the 'exceptional' woman? In this exploration of the difficulty of categorising Holden and her diary, I consider the binary nature of much Western criticism and recent critiques in feminist work. I argue that the Holden 'phenomenon' unwittingly engages with such critiques and unsettles traditional co...
While the Grande Dame Guignol films of the early 1960s served in their time to capitalize on the rep...
Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House has been of critical interest virtually since its first appea...
This study examines Mary McCarthy's three major female-protagonist works of fiction--The Company She...
Edith Holden's Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (1906, published posthumously 1977) is one of the ...
Edith Holden(1871-1920) is the naturalist celebrated for her bestselling Country Diary of an Edwardi...
This article examines Elaine Feinstein's 1984 television dramatisation of Edith Holden's The Country...
The piece contributes to two distinct literatures. The first is the growing field of ‘new biography’...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf are both crucial novels of the Engl...
Jane Eyre, a classic and now firmly canonical fiction, is not only recognized as a milestone in Engl...
What are we to make of Figures 1 and 2? How are we to read them? We can use them as stimuli for fant...
Edith Wharton is commonly perceived as a reactionary conservative looking back to the past. In this ...
This thesis takes as its starting point the culturally potent figure of the alcoholic modernist, who...
Jane Austen is an author whose works and reputation have won the hearts of readers in all corners of...
In proposing a theory of female bastardy, I examine the lives and books of five writers: Flora Trist...
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. First it was a column in the Independent ne...
While the Grande Dame Guignol films of the early 1960s served in their time to capitalize on the rep...
Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House has been of critical interest virtually since its first appea...
This study examines Mary McCarthy's three major female-protagonist works of fiction--The Company She...
Edith Holden's Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (1906, published posthumously 1977) is one of the ...
Edith Holden(1871-1920) is the naturalist celebrated for her bestselling Country Diary of an Edwardi...
This article examines Elaine Feinstein's 1984 television dramatisation of Edith Holden's The Country...
The piece contributes to two distinct literatures. The first is the growing field of ‘new biography’...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf are both crucial novels of the Engl...
Jane Eyre, a classic and now firmly canonical fiction, is not only recognized as a milestone in Engl...
What are we to make of Figures 1 and 2? How are we to read them? We can use them as stimuli for fant...
Edith Wharton is commonly perceived as a reactionary conservative looking back to the past. In this ...
This thesis takes as its starting point the culturally potent figure of the alcoholic modernist, who...
Jane Austen is an author whose works and reputation have won the hearts of readers in all corners of...
In proposing a theory of female bastardy, I examine the lives and books of five writers: Flora Trist...
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. First it was a column in the Independent ne...
While the Grande Dame Guignol films of the early 1960s served in their time to capitalize on the rep...
Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House has been of critical interest virtually since its first appea...
This study examines Mary McCarthy's three major female-protagonist works of fiction--The Company She...