Elspeth Barker
Getting On With It
A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
By Elaine Showalter
Virago 586pp £22.50 order from our bookshop
American women have been authors for more than three hundred and fifty years. Elaine Showalter’s A Jury of Her Peers is quite astonishingly the first comprehensive history of these writers. Showalter is a literary critic celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic for her scholarship, wit and lucid prose. This prodigious undertaking reflects these qualities and moreover is written with a great generosity of spirit that leaves the reader inspired and humbled.
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