Stories for Winter

British Library

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• 'This is, after all, the season of abandonment, of the suspension of vitality, a long cessation of vigour in which we must cultivate our stoicism. Eve... Lees meer

Stories for Summer

Simon Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to Stories for Winter, this collection of 15 short st... Lees meer

Words to Trust

Campbell Gillon

• Hardcover | Engels | Women Writers
• In a world that many find increasingly disorienting and frenetic, individuals in all walks of life, young and old, face life's strains, encounter its ... Lees meer

One Year's Time

Angela Milne

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• It’s New Year’s Day and Liza is painting her floor. Walter, who she met at the party the night before, arrives unexpectedly, and they immediately star... Lees meer

New Italian Women

Grazia Deledda, Dacia Maraini

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• "New Italian Women" is a collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian women celebrates a high level of accomplishment that draw... Lees meer

Willa Cather

Susie Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Women Writers
• Willa Cather's novels were neglected after her death, but a new generation of readers has greeted her work with enthusiasm. This feminist study, which... Lees meer

Shakespeare in His Context

Muriel Bradbrook

• Hardcover | Engels | Women Writers | nr. 4
• 'As we expect from Bradbrook, always a pleasantly readable scholar, these papers consistently convey rich, penetrating, informative, durable perspecti... Lees meer

Introduction to Sally

Elizabeth Von Arnim

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• A Pygmalion -style story told with von Arnim's characteristic wit and charm, this novel introduces us to Salvatia (known as Sally), a much longed-for ... Lees meer

Mamma

Diana Tutton

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to her own age than her daughter's, forms the central d... Lees meer

The Home

Penelope Mortimer

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken marriage and trying to make a new home for grown-up childre... Lees meer

Jean Rhys

Sylvie Maurel

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers | nr. 4
• Jean Rhys' writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their languag... Lees meer

The Tree of Heaven

May Sinclair

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go ... Lees meer

The Camomile

Catherine Carswell

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• ‘the chamomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster is grows.’ Shakespeare, Henry IV part 1 The opening quote of The Camomile provides an insight in... Lees meer

Dangerous Ages

Rose Macaulay

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages ... Lees meer

Sing Me Who You Are

Elizabeth Berridge

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Skill, subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy illumines life. - Daily Telegraph Harriet Cooper bumps up a rutted lane in a Hillman cram... Lees meer

Father

Elizabeth Von Arnim

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Since her mother's death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden ... Lees meer

Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day. In a cent... Lees meer

Forest Silver

E M Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• 'Far below, through the moonlit wood, the lake was visible again and the Island in it. Dim, like a phantom ship, it lay in the silver waters and from ... Lees meer

Ulysses

Philip Gaskell, Clive Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Women Writers | nr. 4
• Feeling that none of the existing editions of Ulysses adequately represents the text of the novel, Philip Gaskell and Clive Hart have looked again at ... Lees meer

Edith Wharton

Katherine Joslin

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Edith Wharton considers the life of the early twentieth century American novelist and examines her fiction in opposition to both the male pastoral rom... Lees meer

The Love Child

Edith Olivier

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Part of the British Library Women Writers series, rediscovering forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers with beautiful new editions 'She... Lees meer

Strange Journey

Maud Cairnes

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and middle-class Polly Wilkinson, switch places with ba... Lees meer

Keeping Up Appearances

Rose Macaulay

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• ‘Oh God, one should not go to parties, Daisy sighed, sinking in wan defeat in the melancholy dawn. One should not mingle with others; one should keep ... Lees meer

Which Way?

Theodora Benson

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• 'There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was shut out. ... Only the fire was alive, consuming i... Lees meer