Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows

Maroula Joannou Senior Lecturer in English Studies,Anglia Polytechnic University

'This is an important feminist survey of English women novelists between the two World Wars ... A valuable addition to feminist literary criticism, recommended for upper-division and graduate levels.' Choice'Academic libraries supporting serious research in European economic history and the history of European industrialization will want this volume. Well indexed.'Academic Library Book Review'An accessible feminist critique of the masculine assumptions about literature of the twenties and thirties.'Feminist Bookstore News'Women writers of the inter-war years have traditionally been neglected by literary histories. Joannou's study contributes towards a redressing of this imbalance. ...the study is well-written, free of jargon and accessible to experts and non-experts alike.'Forum for Modern Language Studies'The project of feminist literary history has hardly begun and Joannou's work suggests numerous rewarding opportunities for further research.'Woolf Studies

• Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth" revisited: women's autobiography, gender, nation and class; "The Woman in the Little House": Leonora Eyles and socialist-feminism - nothing is impracticable for a single, middle-aged woman with an income of her own - literary spinisterhood in the 1920s; lesbian representations - "Orlando" and "The Well of Loneliness"; femininity and feminism - three novels of the 1930s; anti-fascist writings.