At independence, adults were reading decolonial classics - but children were reading Enid Blyton. A generation of unsung women writers changed that.
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A new book illuminates the bold lives of Australian women journalists between 1860 and the end of Word War II – a time when female reporters were ‘almost unheard of’.
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ is now a treasured Christmas classic, but it didn’t start life that way – not in the UK, at least.
Before and after abortion was decriminalized in Canada in 1969, fiction has explored how abortion intersects with cultural imaginings about women’s bodies and humanity’s future.
This separation or segregation of women’s writing should be understood as part of the patriarchal control of what and who matters – and, historically, women have not.
A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has just published 25 literary works by female authors with their real names for the first time. Could we do the same for Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson here?
Henry James called her a ‘great, horse-faced bluestocking’. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living in a patriarchal time.
In a turbulent period of French history, women’s journals started to agitate for legal, political and cultural rights.
Women have been there in their imaginations.
Fifty years after her death, Australian writer Charmian Clift is experiencing a renaissance. With her forward-thinking columns, Clift’s voice rose above the crowd during post-war Australia.
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but was swiftly banned. Yet the similarities between her spare prose and Hemingway’s are unmistakable.
The French writer’s work and life make perfect cinematic subjects.
In the 1980s, Diane Torr was struggling as an office employee and moonlighting go-go dancer – until she read Angela Carter’s The Sadeian Woman.
Author Sheena Kalayil writes about her global life and why she believes the BAME acronym tells people nothing about her.
Did you know Lucy Maud Montgomery also published under the name Belinda Bluegrass? A new database of early Canadian women writers reveals thousands of stories about women’s lives in Canada.
A vivid and remarkable body of writing is emerging to highlight the human cost of the war in Syria.
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, University of Florida
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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PhD, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
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Author and Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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Professor in French and Francophone Women’s Writing; Head of Department of French, King's College London
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Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW
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Professor of English, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in History, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of French, University of Leeds