British Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960 (Women Writers of English & Their Works)

ISBN 10: 0791044831 ISBN 13: 9780791044834

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub

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Gr 9 Up--While books on literary criticism are often requested, this volume will not fill that demand. Of the 14 authors included, only two will be familiar to most teens: Agatha Christie and Daphne Du Maurier. There is no index, so students looking for criticism on Du Maurier's Rebecca, for example, will need to read through all of the excerpts to find pertinent information. Over a third of the pieces have been taken from articles included in Twentieth Century British Literature, also edited by Bloom and which originally took its entries from various works of literary criticism. Each section begins with a biographical sketch of the author, followed by critical excerpts and ending with a bibliography of the writer's works. The best section is on Agatha Christie, which discusses her two main characters, Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, at length. As an introduction to early 20th-century British women writers, this volume could be a start. Students needing more in-depth analysis will want to go elsewhere.

Jo-Anne Weinberg, Greenburgh Public Library, NY

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About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• ISBN 10: 0791044831
• ISBN 13: 9780791044834
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 193
• Editor: Bloom Harold