Titlebook: Gender, Professions and Discourse; Early Twentieth-Cent Christine Etherington-Wright Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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Introductionth centuries. As a teenager, the novels of Haggard, Conan Doyle, Stoker, Stevenson, Wells, Kipling and later Wilde, Conrad, Bennett and Forster filled my shelves. But where were the popular women novelists of this time? Female novelists such as Elinor Glyn, Bertha Ruck and many others are not part o

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Headmistressesraphies examined I have selected four which exemplify the concerns of this group; some of which have been the focus of social historians.. In these texts their common concerns range from those of vocation/service, religion, celibacy and spinsterhood, to teaching methods, curriculum and retirement is

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Women Doctorseneration of headmistresses had been to gain professional status similar to that of their male counterparts. But a woman whose ambition was to be a doctor faced immense opposition. Teaching was acceptable but doctoring was unfeminine. Until Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman doctor in 1849,

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Artists and Practitionersesses and women doctors. Hitherto, the autobiographical writings of women artists (whether they were painters, dancers, actresses, musicians, composers or sculptors), have primarily been researched and read for their recording of their public accomplishments and for information on the participants w

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Women Writersqualitively different from autobiographies of amateurs in the field, and they raise interesting issues about the interrelation of ‘truth’, fact and fiction. These women novelists who were published in the period 1900 onwards participated at a time of great literary change. In a brief overview of the