Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and DesireEmma Donoghue With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships, and expressions of love. The collection is testimony to the rich tradition of female verse and the timelessness of love and creativity. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | xxi |
Ursula Bethell | xl |
Aphra Behn | 4 |
Anne Killigrew II | 11 |
Elizabeth Thomas | 17 |
Charlotte Lennox | 25 |
Elizabeth Hands | 28 |
Eliza Robertson | 34 |
Emily Hickey | 79 |
Sophie Jewett | 96 |
Gertrude Stein | 112 |
Marjorie Pickthall | 118 |
Katherine Mansfield | 124 |
Dorothy Wellesley Duchess of Wellington | 125 |
Ruth Pitter | 132 |
Dorothy Livesay | 138 |
Mary Matilda Betham | 41 |
Mary Russell Mitford | 44 |
Frances Kemble | 50 |
Emily Brontë | 56 |
Bessie Rayner Parkes | 63 |
Helen Hunt Jackson | 70 |
Rosa Mulholland Lady Gilbert | 77 |
Daphne Marlatt | 151 |
Mary Dorcey | 157 |
Ali Smith | 163 |
Biographical Notes | 165 |
Permissions | 195 |
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References to this book
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin Limited preview - 1999 |