Step-daughters of England

Description:

By reading the work of the British modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - through the lens of material culture, this text argues that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent, complicated relation to Britain's imperial history.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  English literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Lesbians in literature,  Modernism (Literature),  Mothers and daughters in literature,  Nationalism and literature,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Richardson, dorothy miller, 1873-1957,  Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941,  English literature, women authors

People: Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873-1957),  Mary Butts (1890-1937),  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-),  Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 20th century