Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim privacy as an entitlement of the modern, middle-class woman.

Autorentext
WENDY GAN is Associate Professor at the School of English, University of Hong Kong.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Reconfiguring Domestic Space for Female Privacy: The Garden, the Study, and the Room Public Privacy: Women, the City, and the Car Privileging Privacy: The Pre-modern Role Models of the Witch and the Primitive 'We Have Gone Recreation Mad': Leisure, Privacy, and Modern Domestic Identity The Loss of a Private World: Women, Privacy, and Novels of Adultery Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index