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Irish women writers entered the British and international
publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between
1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to give them
the attention they deserve for their contributions to the literary
landscape of Ireland, which has included far more women writers,
with far more diverse identities, than hitherto acknowledged. This
collection of new essays by leading scholars explores how women
writers including Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady
Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, Ella Young and Beatrice Grimshaw used
their work to advance their own private and public political
concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding
publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an
ever-growing readership. The chapters investigate their dialogue
with a contemporary politics that included the topics of education,
cosmopolitanism, language, empire, economics, philanthropy,
socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry,
readership(s), the commercial market and employment. -- .
Irish women flourished in the publishing world at the turn of the
twentieth century, and a number of the most popular and prolific of
these authors chose to live and work in Britain. As expatriates,
these women occupied a complex cultural space between Ireland and
Britain from which they were able to observe the rapidly altering
political landscape in their homeland and, in particular, the
debates that concerned them as women. This book examines the lives
and literature of six Irish novelists - Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade,
George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, M. E. Francis and
Katharine Tynan - who lived and worked in Britain between the years
1890 and 1916, between them producing nearly 500 published works.
Drawing on a range of their novels, this study explores their
participation in the prevailing debates of the era: the Irish
Question and the Woman Question. This book was the winner of the
2013 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Irish Studies.
Irish women writers entered the British and international
publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between
1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to give them
the attention they deserve for their contributions to the literary
landscape of Ireland, which has included far more women writers,
with far more diverse identities, than hitherto acknowledged. This
collection of essays by leading scholars explores how women writers
including Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady
Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, Ella Young and Beatrice Grimshaw used
their work to advance their own private and public political
concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding
publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an
ever-growing readership. The chapters investigate their dialogue
with a contemporary politics that included the topics of education,
cosmopolitanism, language, empire, economics, philanthropy,
socialism, and the marriage 'market'. -- .
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