This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.

It is a culturally sensitive, and nuanced collection of chapters, and will doubtless prove invaluable for researchers, teachers and students in the field. It will find a wide readership among literary historians and literary critics, alongside feminist theorists and scholars of the history of feminism, gender and cultural diversity. it brings a much-needed perspective of multiplicity and variation to the more general study of literature. (Karin Sellberg, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 33 (95), 2018)

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Linda Anderson, Newcastle University, UK Claire Chambers, University of York, UK Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University, UK Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK Jane Dowson, De Montfort University, UK Mary Eagleton, independent scholar, UK Gabriele Griffin, University of York, UK Clare Hanson, University of Southampton, UK Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Smith College, USA Maroula Joannou, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Jeannette King, University of Aberdeen, UK Gail Low, University of Dundee, UK Rebecca Munford, Cardiff University, UK Emma Parker, University of Leicester, UK Ruvani Ranasinha, King's College London, UK Suzanne Scafe, London South Bank University, UK Susan Watkins, Leeds Beckett University, UK Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Chronology 1970-2014 Introduction; Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker PART I: WOMEN AND LITERARY CULTURE 1. Fiction: From Realism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Clare Hanson 2. Poetry on Page and Stage; Jane Dowson 3. Mrs Worthington's Daughters: Drama; Gabriele Griffin 4. Media Old and New; Deborah Chambers 5. Publishing and Prizes; Gail Low PART II: FEMINISM AND FICTION: EVOLUTION AND DISSENT 6. The Grandes Dames: Writers of Longevity; Maroula Joannou 7. 'The Monstrous Regiment': Literature and the Women's Liberation Movement; Imelda Whelehan 8. Writing the F-Word: Girl Power, Third Wave, and Postfeminism; Rebecca Munford PART III: GENDER AND GENRE 9. The Gothic: Danger, Discontent, and Desire; Sue Zlosnik 10. Changing the Story: Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Myth; Elizabeth Wanning Harries 11. Disputing the Past: Historical Fiction; Jeannette King 12. Life Lines: Auto/biography and Memoir; Linda Anderson PART IV: WRITING THE NATION: DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, DEVOLUTION 13. Writing the Nations: Welsh, Northern Irish, and Scottish Literature; Hywel Dix 14. Unsettling the Centre: Black British Fiction; Suzanne Scafe 15. Redefining Britishness: British Asian Fiction; Ruvani Ranasinha PART V: WRITING NOW 16. Writing Now; Claire Chambers and Susan Watkins Electronic Resources Select Bibliography Index