1st Edition
British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature Alternative domestic spaces
Table of Contents
Introduction: Reading the Single Room in the British Boarding House
Chapter 1 – No Place Like Home: Boarding and Lodging in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Chapter 2 – ‘Less than ten shillings between her and nothing’: Social Class and the Economics of the Boarding House in Storm Jameson, Lettice Cooper, and Stella Gibbons
Chapter 3 –‘Can we go back to your room?’ – Relationships, Sexual Encounters and Romantic Friendships in Rosamond Lehmann, Jean Rhys and Winifred Holtby
Chapter 4 – Race and Nationality: Travelling to the British Boarding House
Chapter 5 – Conclusion – Rooms for Single Women: Virginia Woolf’s The Years
Biography
Terri Mullholland holds a doctorate in English from the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research interests are in early twentieth-century women’s writing and the intersections of literature and spatial theory. She has published on Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair, and is co-editor of Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and Architecture (2015).
"This fascinating monograph, British Boarding House in Interwar Women's Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces, encompasses some of the most familiar names in women's writing of the interwar period." -- Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow
