TY - BOOK AU - Heilbrun,Carolyn G. TI - Hamlet's mother and other women AV - PR 111 .H45 1990 PY - 1991///, c1990 CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - English literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - American literature KW - Women and literature KW - Women in literature N1 - 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 ER -