This important collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contr

Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is onl

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genr

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 Katha

After a decade in which women writers have gradually been given more recognition in the study of Irish literature, this collection proposes a reappraisal of Iri