- Web Resources for Women Writers
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Below you'll find web links for the authors and works we're
reading this semester, as well as recommendations for further
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On Women's History
On Fashion, Commerce, and Cultural Events
On Women's Literature
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- Scribbling Women provides resources, background, and lesson plans for works by several American women authors, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Susan Glaspell.
On Literary Periods, Genres, and Styles
Literary Periods
- W.W. Norton's site of web resources for the Norton
Anthology of English Literature offers cultural and literary
context for the periods in which our authors lived:
- At the site for The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1785), &1xbet online sports betting ;A Day in Eighteenth-Century London&1xbet online sports betting ; provides a wonderful look at life in London, c.1660-1785, through writings, paintings, and engravings of the time. (Be sure to look at the excerpt from Eliza Haywood's The Female Specator (a response to Addison
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- At the site for The Romantic Period (1785-1830), &1xbet online sports betting ;Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and Romantic Landscape&1xbet online sports betting ; offers some context for the travels of Victor Frankenstein in Shelley's novel, as well as further information about 1xbet online sports betting Romantic contemporaries whom she quotes in 1xbet online sports betting novel.
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- The Women Romantic-Era Writers site offers a wealth of 1xbet online sports betting for authors of this period, including pages on: Electronic Texts by Women Writers; Annuals, Anthologies and Gift Books; Contemporary Responses to Women Writers; Electronic Text Archives; Cultural and Visual Resources; and Related Web Sites.
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in the School of English at the Queen's University of Belfast.
- An Introduction
to Postcolonial Studies at the site for Postcolonial
Studies at Emory.
Literary Genres and Styles
Authors
Fleur Adcock
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profile and critical overview of Adcock's work.
- A
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Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Pat Barker
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- Interviews:
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- Reviews and critical essays:
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- Links to historical background on the First World War:
- Explore the site for World War One at BBC Knowledge for links to a summary of the war years, Daily Mirror articles from the 1940s about the war, interviews with veterans, a 3-D virtual tour of a trench, and information about making of the UK feature-length television drama &1xbet online sports betting ;All the King's Men&1xbet online sports betting ; (1999).
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Aphra Behn
Anne Bradstreet
- A brief biography of Anne Bradstreet, with links to other web resources.
- An overview of Bradstreet's work from the Poetry Foundation.
- Pattie Cowell provides a
critical overview of Bradstreet's work for Heath's Online
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Anne Bronte
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- Anne Brontë: An Overview (at the Victorian Web) places Anne Bronte's work in the context of the19th century period.
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Suzanne Collins
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- View several portraits of Virginia Woolf:
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- Web resources on particular works:
- The Voyage Out:
- Author Michael Cunningham's essay at Salon magazine (adapted from his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Voyage Out) provides a thoughtful discussion of this first novel and Woolf's career.
- &1xbet online sports betting ;Thunder at Wembly&1xbet online sports betting ;:
- To the Lighthouse:
- Study questions by Cathy Decker.
- A structural outline of To the Lighthouse by E. K. Sparks (Clemson University).
[Link courtesy of the Internet Archive.]
- A reading of Woolf's narrative strategies in To the Lighthouse in light of the male and masculine modernism of Woolf's contemporaries. (Link courtesy of the Internet Archive.)
- The fairy tale &1xbet online sports betting ;The Fisherman and His Wife&1xbet online sports betting ; which Mrs. Ramsay reads to James in Part I.
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- Woolf Online provides a detailed digital archive of materials for To the Lighthouse.
- Lily's painting may have been inspired by this photograph of Woolf's mother holding Vanessa, and this photograph of Julia at a window of Talland House, with Virginia and Adrian.
- The Waves:
- Three Guineas:
- EllenGoodman's syndicated op-ed column, &1xbet online sports betting ;Are women now insiders on the war?&1xbet online sports betting ; (27 March 2003) looks at gender and the war with Iraq through the lens of Woolf's Three Guineas.
Authors who missed this version
of the syllabus...
A.S. Byatt
Angela Carter
Caryl Churchill
Margaret Drabble
Georgette Heyer
Penelope Fitzgerald
Doris Lessing
Toni Morrison
- Web resources: Anniina's
Toni Morrison Page has information about her books as well
as links to on-line biographies, bibliographies, and interviews.
For information about the Nobel Prize Morrison won in 1993 for
&1xbet online sports betting ;novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import,
gives life to an essential aspect of American reality&1xbet online sports betting ; and
the text of her Nobel Lecture, visit her Nobel
Prize Internet Archive Page.
- Recommended reading: Song of Solomon (1977) and Beloved
(1987).
Iris Murdoch
Arundhati Roy
- Web resources:
- Recommended reading: The God of Small Things (1997).
Mary Shelley
- The
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site
has a complete and detailed chronology of Mary Shelley's life
as well as a bibliography and selected links to other web resources.
Of special note: Sir Walter Scott's review
of Frankenstein (1818) in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
(2 [20 March/1 April 1818]: 613-6) and the chronology of Mary
Shelley's life for 1797-1816
and for 1817-1824.
- View Henry Fuseli's painting &1xbet online sports betting ;The
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scene of Elizabeth Lavenza's death. An alternate
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Muriel Spark
- Web resources:
- Recommended reading: The Girls of Slender Means, The
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Alice Walker
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life and works, with links to bibliographies, book reviews, interviews,
and the works themselves.
- Recommended reading: Pulitzer prize-winning The Color
Purple (1982).
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