Highlights a selection of significant females authors throughout history from Jane Austen and Maya Angelo to Agatha Cristie and Judy Blume. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.

Presents varied perspectives on Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," focusing on the women's issues reflected in her work.

Provides criticism to Toni Morrison's Sula by thirteen contributors, and includes an introductory essay and editor's notes, a bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and works.

Explores the characters of fantasy & folklore and places them in historical context.

The three-chapter format begins with biographical and critical information about the author, providing a broad overview of the author's influences, life experience and literary career. Critical perspectives follow, offering a multi-faceted analysis of the relationship between the work and women's issues. It concludes with a final chapter, exploring women's issues from a contemporary perspective and assessing its significance in society today.

"A young writer explores what some of the greatest women in literature have meant to her--and how these timeless characters still serve as a guide for the way we lead our lives"--

"From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched...

From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the 'Muslim Woman'. Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster spiral into repeat castings as a jihadi bride. Among...

Explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She writes about the half-dozen contrasting girl-girl plots that have been retold...

Contains a collection of critical studies on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" by literary critics that include C.S. Lewis, Susan Morgan, and Susan Fraiman.