The ICVWW’s five-year project From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation and the New in Women’s Writing from the 1840s to the 1930s aims to trace and reassess, decade by decade, how women’s writing develops in the cultural context of the 1840s to the 1930s: a transformative period in women’s private, public and literary lives.
Including the work of canonical authors such as Charlotte Brontë and Virginia Woolf, the project is also significantly concerned with rediscovering and repositioning the lives and work of neglected female authors.
Now in its fourth year, the project aims to build on the success of conferences from 2014 to 2016 on women’s writing from the 1840s to the 1890s, moving into the twentieth century. The Edwardian years are often regarded as a particularly male period of fiction, but women's writing reveals another facet to this period. This cfp therefore seeks proposals for papers that explore the range and vitality of British women’s writing from 1900-1919.
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