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

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

O, the Brave Music

Dorothy Evelyn Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• 'Sometimes I think that was the happiest day of my life, those hours of heat and silence and colour, along with David high up on the moor. But then I ... Lees meer

Chatterton Square

Emily Hilda Young

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the F... 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

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

Women in Romanticism

Meena Alexander

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• What did it mean to write as a woman in the Romantic era? How did women writers test and refashion the claims or the grand self, the central 'I, ' we ... Lees meer

The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers | nr. 4
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman called herself a humanist and believed the domestic environment oppressed women through the patriarchal beliefs upheld by soc... Lees meer

Tea Is So Intoxicating

Mary Essex

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• "I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in the orchard," announced David, "and with my penchant... 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

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

War Among Ladies

Eleanor Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer meet the educational standards expected nor control... 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

Tension

E M Delafield

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Miss Pauline Marchrose arrives at the Commercial and Technical College of South-West England as the new Lady Superintendent. But Lady Edna Rossiter, t... Lees meer

Sally on the Rocks

Winifred Boggs

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Little Crampto... Lees meer

Doris Lessing

Margaret Moan Rowe

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers | nr. 2
• Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child , Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultu... Lees meer

My Husband Simon

Mollie Panter-Downes

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• Published in 1931 in the immediate aftermath of D H Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover controversy, Mollie Panter-Downes's book explores the different e... 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

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

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

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

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