A Literature of My Own: Living with Victorian Women Writers

Authors

  • Elaine Showalter Princeton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v60i1.5

Keywords:

Victorian women authors, Elaine Showalter, Literary History, Feminist Literary Criticism, Rutgers University Libraries

Abstract

Elaine Showalter describes her research on Victorian women authors in the 1970s leanding to her ground breaking work of feminist literary criticism, A Literary of Their Own, and the necessity of creating her own research collection of book by these authors. This article is based on a lecture at Rutgers on the occasion of her donating her collection to the Rutgers University Libraries.

Author Biography

Elaine Showalter, Princeton University

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University.

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Published

2005-04-28

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Vol. 60 (2003)

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