Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Co...

In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural...

An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers fro...

When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative ex...

Showalter re-draws the picture of mental illness with clearer lines and as something which is clo...

'Modern American Women Writers' is a rich examination of how the lives of thirty-two of America's...

One of the best loved books of all time. Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s...

Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common thre...

A 1924 novel by one of America's leading writers about a couple who role-swap.

Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'' takes up tro...

'You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!'First pu...

A biography of Julia Ward Howe, a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.

At the turn of the century, short stories by - and often about - ”New Women” flooded the pages En...

Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American litera...

' The Vintage Book of American Women Writers 'is the first of its kind: a dazzling, monumental sh...

`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that h...

In 1926-27, The Nation published these seventeen anonymous essays by 'women active in professiona...

[photo of the two women]Vera to Winifred ` I do love your letters. They're just like broken-off c...

The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made read...

Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: Americ...

When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative ex...

Short Stories By 19th-Century American Women. These tales of remarkable and of ordinary lives in ...

In Out of Time, leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and lives of o...

Stories by celebrated female writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton - ed...