Self-Made Women
John Sutherland, 11 July 1991
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present
edited by Virginia Blain, Isobel Grundy and Patricia Clements.
Batsford, 1231 pp., £35, August 1990,0 7134 5848 8 Show More
edited by Virginia Blain, Isobel Grundy and Patricia Clements.
Batsford, 1231 pp., £35, August 1990,
The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel
by Richard Altick.
Ohio State, 854 pp., $45, March 1991,0 8142 0518 6 Show More
by Richard Altick.
Ohio State, 854 pp., $45, March 1991,
“... cooking does not rate high). Betty Friedan gets in, but not Mary Douglas; Hannah Arendt, but not Barbara Wootton. In general, journalists get a raw deal. There is no entry on Katharine Whitehorn, Polly Toynbee, Nancy Spain, Helen Gurley Brown. Agony aunts get an even rawer deal: Marje Proops, Anne Landers and Dear Abby are firmly out. Pauline Réage is ... ”
