# A Literature of Their Own. British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

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- Authors: [Elaine Showalter](https://www.bookquiver.com/elaine-showalter)
- Publisher: princeton_university_press
- ISBN: 0-691-06318-4
- Published: 1977-03-21
- Language: pl_PL
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.