Between Friends

Elaine Showalter is Professor Emerita of English and Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, where she taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. She is the author of A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing, and many other books on women writers, and has also written about literature, art and popular culture for newspapers and magazines in the US and UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.English Showalter is a professor emeritus of French literature at Rutgers University. He was an editor of the fifteen-volume Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny, published by the Voltaire Foundation at Oxford, and he still enjoys deciphering manuscript letters. He has also written a biography of Madame de Graffigny and books on the eighteenth-century French novel and on Camus.They live in Washington DC.

This volume offers a window on an intriguing relationship... [It] delivers Winifred Holtby back into Vera Brittain's ineluctable embrace