1st Edition
The Woman's View An Anthology of Prose Passages about Women, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Young Girls: from The House by Elizabeth Bowen 2. Different Girls: from The Waves by Virginia Woolf 3. Being a Girl: from Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 4. Growing Up I: from The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers 5. Growing Up II: from The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence 6. Wanting a Chance in Life: from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner 7. Wanting Something More: from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8. A Young Girl’s Aspirations: from Journals by Marie Bashkirtseff 9. Being Non-Educated: from Letters by Mary Kingsley 10. Weak Woman: from A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 11. Being in Love I: from Emma by Jane Austen 12. Planning for the Future: from Middlemarch by George Eliot 13. Being a Governess: from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë 14. Being Engaged: from The Egoist by George Meredith 15. Marriage for the Wrong Reasons – Or to the Wrong Man: from Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 16. Love and Commonsense: from Letters by Jane Austen 17. Advising a Daughter on Life: from Letters by Queen Victoria 18. Being Married: from At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield 19. Being Married – and a Little Older: from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 20. Being a Bluestocking Married to a Genius: from Letters by Jane Welsh Carlyle 21. Wanting a Life of One’s Own: from All Passion Spent by Victoria Sackville-West 22. Escaping Temporarily: from A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor 23. How Life Passes: from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson 24. Coming Up for Air: from Dangerous Ages by Rose Macauly 25. Bird in a Cage: from A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen 26. Being an Outsider: from The Holiday by Stevie Smith 27. Being Dissatisfied with the Love of Man: from The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann 28. Being a Sensitive Soul: from Howard’s End by E.M. Forster 29. Loving: from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 30. Being in Love II: from Letters to Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft 31. Man’s Ideal Wife – and Later: from Middlemarch by George Eliot 32. Man’s Ideal of Woman: from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde 33. Woman Playing up to Her Role: from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde 34. The Shavian Ideal of Woman and Man: from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 35. Being a ‘Free’ Woman: from My Life by Isadora Duncan 36. Bringing up Baby: from A Proper Marriage by Doris Lessing 37. A Man Infatuated – and Out of Love: from Liber Amoris by William Hazlitt 38. Being a Mother: from Look the Other Way by John Branfield 39. A Man in Two Minds: from Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock 40. If Shakespeare had Been a Woman: from A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 41. Being a Political Woman: from The New Machiavelli by H.G. Wells 42. Women and Fiction: from Granite and Rainbow by Virginia Woolf 43. Woman in Present Society: from ‘The Guardian’ by Mary Stott. Suggestions for Oral Discussion or Written Work. Suggestions for Further Reading.
Biography
June Wedgwood Benn
