Heilbrun, Carolyn G., 1926-2003.

Hamlet's mother and other women / Carolyn G. Heilbrun. - 1st Ballantine Books ed. - New York : Ballantine Books, 1991, c1990. - xviii, 317 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Character of Hamlet's Mother -- Margaret Mead and the question of woman's biography -- Freud's daughters -- Vera Brittain's Testament of experience -- Winifred Holtby -- Virginia Woolf and James Joyce -- Virginia Woolf in her fifties -- What was Penelope unweaving? -- Marriage perceived -- To the lighthouse -- Alcott's Little women -- May Sarton's Mrs. Stevens Hears the mermaids singing -- May Sarton's memoirs -- Bringing the spirit back to English studies -- Women, men, theories, and literature -- Feminist criticism in departments of literature -- Presidential address -- Politics of mind -- Detective novel of manners -- Gender and detective fiction -- Sayers, Lord Peter, and Harriet Vane at Oxford.

0345372085 (pbk. : cover) : $10.00 ($12.50 Can.) 9780345372086 (pbk. : cover)

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English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.

PR 111 / .H45 1990