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Abstract
This essay will re-evaluate several women writers of the 1910s as neo-Edwardian writers, by examining a range of fictional and autobiographical texts that are set in the recent past of the Edwardian period. It will focus in particular on three suffragette narratives that were published in the pre-World War One years - Constance Maud, No Surrender (1911), Gertrude Colmore, Suffragette Sally (1911) and Lady Constance Lytton, Prisons and Prisoners: some personal experiences (1914) – that seek to represent, and evaluate, the movement’s activities during the Edwardian decade and which have not yet been the subject of sustained critical comparison. By identifying some distinctive formal and thematic tropes in these texts, I aim to explore their continuing interest to different scholarly communities and to develop a fresh reading of these works’ literary, and wider cultural and social, provenance as neo-Edwardian texts.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Women's Writing |
Early online date | 19 Dec 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- neo-edwardian
- suffragette narratives
- autobiography
- 1910s
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From Brontë to Bloomsbury Fourth International Conference: Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1900s and 1910s
Edwards, S. (Participant)
11 Jul 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences