A guide to British women authors, their works, and the writing about them.

A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and rea

This broad examination of women writers identified with Great Britain builds on its predecessor's strengths, with fifty percent new material as well as complete

The growing interest today in women's writing has led to a re-evaluation of British literary history, emphasizing the vitality of both well-known women writers

The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated