Rebel writers: the accidental feminists

Brayfield, C (2019) Rebel writers: the accidental feminists. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 9781448217496

Abstract

In London in 1958 a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first of a succession of very young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so rejected masculine definitions of what writing and a writer should be. After Delaney came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid Banks, Virginia Ironside, Charlotte Bingham, Margaret Forster and Nell Dunn, each challenging traditional concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays and journalism. Not since the Brontës have a group of young women been so determined to tell the truth about what it is like to be a girl and proposed new ways to live and love in the future.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
UoA:	English Literature & Language
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2018 11:09
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2022 17:03
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/11708

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