Titlebook: Sisters and Rivals in British Women‘s Fiction, 1914-39; Diana Wallace Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Lim

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,The ‘Other Woman’: Rebecca West’s ‘Difference of View’, dominated her life during the decade-long affair, necessitating tortuous cover-ups which included bringing up their son to call her ‘Auntie Panther’, but became an identity from which she was never able fully to escape. Indeed, ‘Rebecca West’, the pseudonym which the nineteen-year-old Cicily Fairfi

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,The ‘Recurring Dream’ of Romance: Rosamond Lehmann, the intimate and the subjective which has traditionally been the territory of the ‘woman’s novelist’. Her focus on the romantic desires of women initially seems out of step with the political commitment and social realism which marks the writing we have come to think of as characterising the 1930s.

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Conclusion, is a reconciliatory dialogue between two sisters, Madelaine and Dinah Burkett, set over twenty-four hours in November 1946, but the main action and the reason for their fifteen-year estrangement – Dinah’s affair with Madelaine’s husband Rickie – takes place in the 1930s. This central triangle revis

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Introduction,n he wrote that ‘women regard all other women as their competitors, whereas men as a rule only have this feeling towards other men in the same profession’ (1930, 85). It is based on the assumption that getting a man is every woman’s . and that this will over-ride any other loyalties or interests.

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Theorising Female Rivalry,e for his mother and rivalry with his father. Reading the female-identified triangle in terms of the female Oedipal complex, however, is complicated by the girl’s initial, pre-Oedipal attachment to her mother.

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,The ‘Other Woman’: Rebecca West’s ‘Difference of View’,eld borrowed from the heroine of Ibsen’s ., the rebellious New Woman who loves the married Rosmer, now seems uncannily prescient. As Sinclair’s literary identity was dominated by the label ‘spinster’, West’s was overcast by that of the ‘other woman’ – the ‘mistress’, the ‘unmarried mother’.

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d to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of inter-war women‘s writing and an examination of t