Product Description: Book by Susskind, Teresa

First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent—the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors’ letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsen’s heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsen’s now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface. (view table of contents)

Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors which impede literary creativity in women

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A collection of personal and political essays reflects on what it means to be a woman writer and explores the pleasures and dangers of writing as a woman, encompassing such topics as defiance of traditions, exile, and re-creation of identities and communities in writings by Erica Jong, Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Isabel Allende, Barbara Kingsolver, and other notables. Original.

Product Description: In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Paired here with A Room of One’s Own, a masterful and provocative essay on women’s role in society, this beautiful hardcover edition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Woolf scholar or fan...read more

Product Description: An extended essay, first published in 1929 and based on a series of lectures that Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. The extended essay employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction; and is generally seen as a feminist text...read more