Janet Montefiore lectures in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Kent. She is the author of Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identify in Women’s Writing (1987, 1994), and of numerous essays on twentieth-century literature and critical theory. She is married and has two children.

• Introduction 1 Remembering the 1930s 2 The pram in the hall: men and women writing the self in the 1930s 3 Vamps and victims: images of women in the left-wing literature of the 1930s 4 ‘Undeservedly forgotten’: women poets of the thirties 5 Parables of the past: a reading of some antifascist historical novels 6 Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Janet Montefiore lectures in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Kent. She is the author of Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identify in Women’s Writing (1987, 1994), and of numerous essays on twentieth-century literature and critical theory. She is married and has two children.

• Introduction 1 Remembering the 1930s 2 The pram in the hall: men and women writing the self in the 1930s 3 Vamps and victims: images of women in the left-wing literature of the 1930s 4 ‘Undeservedly forgotten’: women poets of the thirties 5 Parables of the past: a reading of some antifascist historical novels 6 Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Janet Montefiore lectures in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Kent. She is the author of Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identify in Women’s Writing (1987, 1994), and of numerous essays on twentieth-century literature and critical theory. She is married and has two children.

• Introduction 1 Remembering the 1930s 2 The pram in the hall: men and women writing the self in the 1930s 3 Vamps and victims: images of women in the left-wing literature of the 1930s 4 ‘Undeservedly forgotten’: women poets of the thirties 5 Parables of the past: a reading of some antifascist historical novels 6 Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon