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The Feminist Companion to Literature in English

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Entries focus on biographical details over literary criticism, seeking to show the lives from which women's writing emerged. The editors included entries on writing not typically considered literary, such as
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emphasizes women's relationships with one another and lists mothers before fathers when describing a subject's parentage.
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in the US. It took about ten years to complete and was based mainly on research completed specifically for the project.
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Freeman, Lisa A. (2012). "Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (review)".
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The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present
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Brown, Susan; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel; Balazs, Sharon; Antoniuk, Jeffrey (2007).
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includes about 2,700 entries about women writers and associated topics such as
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Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Barry, Peter (September 1991). "Taking Up References".
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Index

biographical dictionary
women writers
Virginia Blain
Patricia Clements
Isobel Grundy
Pavilion Books
Yale University Press
genres
literary movements
Middle Ages
diaries
letters
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Cambridge University Press



Harris 1992
"The Story of the Orlando Project: Personal Reflections"
doi
10.2307/20455313
ISSN
0732-7730
JSTOR
20455313


ISSN
0010-4124
JSTOR

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