Puellilia
Pat Rogers, 7 August 1986
Mothers of the Novel: One Hundred Good Women Writers before Jane Austen
by Dale Spender.
Pandora, 357 pp., £12.95, May 1986,0 86358 081 5 Show More
by Dale Spender.
Pandora, 357 pp., £12.95, May 1986,
Scribbling Sisters
by Dale Spender and Lynne Spender.
Camden Press, 188 pp., £4.95, May 1986,0 948491 00 0 Show More
by Dale Spender and Lynne Spender.
Camden Press, 188 pp., £4.95, May 1986,
A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley
by Fidelis Morgan.
Faber, 176 pp., £9.95, June 1986,0 571 13934 5 Show More
by Fidelis Morgan.
Faber, 176 pp., £9.95, June 1986,
The Female Quixote: The Adventures of Arabella
by Charlotte Lennox.
Pandora, 423 pp., £4.95, May 1986,0 86358 080 7 Show More
by Charlotte Lennox.
Pandora, 423 pp., £4.95, May 1986,
“... We shouldn’t need Dale Spender to remind us that the language of literary history is man-made, and the order it imposes on the past a male construct. We shouldn’t, but we probably do, and the truth remains salutary, even though Spender’s book is about as flawed in execution as it is possible to get without the pages flying apart as you read. Mothers of the Novel has a perfectly defensible, indeed defence-worthy, thesis ... ”
