| Description |
x, 278 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and from man to man -- Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics -- Sara Jeannette Duncan: a Canadian girl in London -- Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines -- Jean Rhys: 'a savage from the Cannibal Islands' -- Una Marson: 'little brown girl' in a 'white, white city' -- Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage -- Afterword. |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors. |
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Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Women travelers -- England -- London -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women travelers. |
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England -- London. |
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Biography. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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London (England) -- In literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Decolonization in literature.
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Decolonization in literature. |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- England.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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England. |
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Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. |
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Duncan, Sara Jeannette, 1861-1922. |
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Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. |
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Rhys, Jean, 1890-1979. |
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Marson, Una, 1905-1965. |
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Stead, Christina, 1902-1983. |
| ISBN |
0521515459 (hdbd) |
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9780521515450 (hdbd) |
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