What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women''s fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of inter-war women''s writing and an examination of the links and rivalries between women writers themselves.

What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women''s fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of inter-war women''s writing and an examination of the links and rivalries between women writers themselves.

What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women''s fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of inter-war women''s writing and an examination of the links and rivalries between women writers themselves.