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Books

Women's Writing, Englishness, and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012), ISBN 978-230-28577-5 (hb), 234 printed pages.

The Palgrave History of British Women's Writing, (editor) vol. 8, 1920-1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012). In press for December 2012 publication. ISBN 978-0-28279-7 (hb)

Contemporary Women's Fiction: From The Golden Notebook to The Color Purple (Manchester:The Manchester University Press, 2000), ISBN: 0 7190 5338 2 (hb), 209 printed pages.

Women Writers of the 1930s:Gender, Politics, History (editor)
(Edinburgh:The Edinburgh University Press, 1998), ISBN 0 7486 1112 6 (pb), 224 printed pages.

The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives, co-edited with June Purvis (Manchester: The Manchester University Press, 1997), ISBN 0 7190 4860 5 (hb), 224 printed pages.

'Ladies Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 (Oxford and Providence: Berg, 1995). ISBN 085496 909 8 (pb), 236 printed pages. This featured on the Choice (USA) list of outstanding academic books for 1995.

Heart of the Heartless World: Essays in Cultural Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann, co-edited with David Margolies (London: Pluto Press, 1995). ISBN 0 7453 0981 X (hb),239 printed pages.

Critical edition of Ellen Wilkinson, Clash, with notes and introduction, co-edited with Ian Haywood (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2004). ISBN: 1 84233 069 1 (pb), 225 printed pages.

Critical Prefaces

Preface to Gill Davies, David Morley,John Simons (ed), Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist and Poet (Lampeter: Edwin Mellon Press, 2004).

Preface to Lisa Regan (ed.), 'A Woman In Her Time': Winifred Holtby In Context. (Cambridge: The Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).

Essays and Book Chapters

' "Alright, I'll do Anything for Good Clothes": Jean Rhys and Fashion', Women: a Cultural Review. ISSN 057-40429. In press.

'England's Jane': The Legacy of Jane Austen in the Fiction of Barbara Pym, Dodie Smith and Elizabeth Taylor', in Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson (eds) The Uses of Jane Austen: Austen's Afterlives (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012), pp. 59-94.

'The Politics of Comedy and War in At Mrs Lippincote's, in N. H. Reeve (ed.), Elizabeth Taylor: a Centenary Celebration (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), pp. ISBN 1-4438-3656-7, pp In N. H. Reeve (ed.), Elizabeth Taylor: a Centenary Celebration ISBN 1-4438-3656-7, pp.

'No Suffragette Saw Herself in my Mirror': Evolutionary and Biological Discourse in H. G. Wells', The Wellesian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society, 34, 2011, pp. 32-43. No ISSN.

'Hilda, Harnessed to a Purpose': Elizabeth Robins, Ibsen and the Vote', in Comparative Drama, Summer, 2010, vol 44, no 2, pp. 179-200. ISBN 0010-4078.

''The Wicked Ladies': The Historical Romantic Fiction of the 1940s', in Christopher Hart (ed.), Heroines and Heroes: Symbolism, Embodiment, Narratives and Identities (Kingswinford: Midrash Press, 2008), pp. 149-161 ISBN-13978-955-12443-3.

'Storm Jameson's Journey from the North as Political Autobiography', in Jennifer Birkett and Chiara Briganti (eds), Storm Jameson: Writing in Dialogue (Cambridge: The Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp.376-399.
ISBN 1-84718-182-1.

'"Go West, Old Woman!":The Radical Re-Vision of Slave History in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', in Brychann Carey and Peter Kitson (eds), Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition (London: D.S. Brewer [for The English Association] 2007), Essays and Studies, vol 59, pp.

'Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward and the Opposition to Women's Suffrage', Women's History Review, vol 14, 3, 2005, pp.565-583. ISSN 0961-2025.

'Powell, Pressburger and Englishness', European Journal of English Studies, 2004, vol. 8. 2. lSSN 1382-5577, pp.189-203.

'Nancy Cunard's English Journey', Feminist Review, 78, 2004. pp.141-163. ISSN 1-4039-4142-4.

'Pat Barker and the Languages of Region and Class', in Emma Parker (ed), Contemporary British Women's Writing, Essays and Studies (London: D.S. Brewer [forThe English Association] 2004,vol 56, pp.41-54. ISBN 1843840111.

'"Chloe liked Olivia": The Woman Scientist, Sex and Suffrage,' in Trudi Tate and Helen Small (eds), Literature, Science and Psychoanalysis 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 195-211. ISBN 0-19-926667-0 (hb).

'Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Love', in Jane Dowson (ed.), After the Deluge: Women's Writing 1945-1960 (London: Palgrave, 2003), pp.117-131. ISBN 1-4039-1309-9.

'This Book Changes Lives': The Consciousness-Raising Novel and its Legacy', with Imelda Whelehan, in Ann Kawolski Taylor et al (eds), The Feminist Seventies (York University Centre for Women's Studies: Raw Nerve Books, 2003), pp. 125-141. ISBN 0-9536585-5-4 (pb).

''The Angel of Freedom': Dora Marsden and the Transformation of The Freewoman into The Egoist', Women's History Review, vol 11, no 2, autumn 2002, pp. 595-611. ISSN: 0961 2025.

'Finding New Words and Creating New Methods':Three Guineas and The Handmaid's Tale', in Merry Pawlowski (ed), Virginia Woolf and Fascism (London: Palgrave, 2001), pp.139-155. ISBN 0-333-80115-6.

'Loving the Hero Home on Leave?': Elaine Morgan's TV adaption of Testament of Youth', in Claire Tylee (ed.), Women, The First World War and the Dramatic Imagination (Lampeter: Edwin Mellon Press, 2000), pp. 237-250. ISBN 0.7734.7455.2.

'Nell Dun', Post-War Literatures in English, no. 44, June, 1999, pp.1-13.

'The Woman Writer in the 1930s: On Not Being Mrs.Giles of Durham City', in Maroula Joannou (ed.),Women Writers of the 1930s, Gender, Politics, History (Edinburgh: The Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp.1-15. ISBN: 07486 111 2 6.

'Naomi Mitchison at 100', Women: A Cultural Review, vol.9, no 3, 1998, pp.292-304. ISSN 057 40429.

'Essentially Virtuous?: Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac', in Lynne Pierce and Gina Wisker (eds), Fatal Attractions: Re-Scripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film (London: Pluto Press, 1998), pp.84-98. ISBN 453 1381-7.

'Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s', in Andy Croft (ed.), A Weapon in the Struggle: Essays in the Cultural History of the Communist Party (London: Pluto Press, 1998), pp.87-102.ISBN 07453 12047.

'Suffragette Fiction and the Fictions of Suffrage', in The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives, co-edited with June Purvis (Manchester:The Manchester University Press, 1997), pp.84-99. ISBN 07190 48605.

'Dennis the Menace?': Hegemonic Masculinity in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective', in Maya Slater (ed.), Men, Women, Voice: Gender in European Culture (Oxford: Intellect Books, 1997), pp.85-95.ISBN 0 7484 0365.

'She "Who Would be Politically Free Herself Must Strike the Blow": Suffragette Autobiography and Suffragette Militancy', in Julia Swindells (ed.), The Uses of Autobiography (London: Taylor and Francis, 1995), pp.31-44. ISBN 0 7484 03655.

'Ellen Wilkinson's Clash and the Cultural Legacy of Socialist-Feminism,' in David Margolies and Maroula Joannou (eds), Heart of the Heartless World: Essays in Cultural Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann (London: Pluto Press, 995), pp.148-61.ISBN 0 7453 0982 8.

'"Nothing is Impracticable for a Single, Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own": The Spinster in Women's Fictions of the 1920s', in Sybil Oldfield (ed.), This Working-Day World: Women's Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945 (London: Taylor and Francis, 1994), pp.175-91. ISBN 0 7484 0107 5.

'Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth Revisited', Literature and History, 3rd series, 2/2, Autumn,1993, pp.46-72. ISSN 0306 1973.

'The Woman in the Little House', in Daphne Patai and Angela Ingram (eds.), Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1890-1939, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), pp.75-98. ISBN 0 8078 2087 3.

Guest Editor

Women: A Cultural Review, spring 2008, guest editor special issue on Contemporary Women's Writing, co-edited with Lucie Armitt and Paulina Palmer.

Literature and History, Vol. 10, no 2, autumn 2003, guest editor, special edition on the 1930s.

Critical Survey, guest editor, special edition on the 1930s co-edited with Professor John Lucas, vol 10, no 3, autumn, 1998.

Critical Survey, guest editor, special edition on the 1930s, vol 15, no 2, 2003.

Council for College and University English guest editor of the CCUE Newsletter, spring 1999 on the theme of gender and the teaching of English.


Editor

7 Days book page 1989-1991.


English Language Advisor

Fran Hazelton (ed.), Iraq Since The Gulf War (London: Zed Books, 1994).

Biographical Entries

Leonora Eyles, Cicely Hamilton, Eva Moore, in The New Dictionary of National Biography.

Phyllis Bottome, Lettice Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Leonora Eyles, Storm Jameson, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Rosamond Lehmann, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, Rebecca West, in Lorna Sage (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English.

Storm Jameson, Lettice Cooper, in Janet Todd (ed.), British Women Writers.

Vera Brittain, in Margaretta Jolly (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Life Writing (1000 words).

Rebecca West, in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by Val Grosvenor Myer and Steven Serafin (1200 words).

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nancy Mitford, in The Literary Encyclopaedia and Dictionary (on line).

Sylvia Townsend Warner, in Faye Hammill et al (eds), Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing,1900-1950. (1000 words).

Reviews
(550 words and over)

'Lust for Lives', with Steve McIntyre, Screen, vol 24, no 4/5, July-October 1983, pp.145-9. ISSN 0036 9543.

Brian Simon, (ed.),The Search for Enlightenment, WEA Reportback, spring, 1991, pp.25-6 (650 words).

Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas West Indian Women at War, Marxism Today, July, 1991, p.45 (650 words). ISSN 9 770025 411013 07.

Marjorie Stone, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Glenda Norquay,Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women's Suffrage Movement, Women's History Review, vol.5, no.4, 1996, pp. 575-6. ISSN 0961 2025 (1200 words).

Jane Dowson, Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology, Gravesiana: The Journal of the Robert Graves Society, December,1997, pp. 421-424. ISSN 1368 1095 (1500 words).

Janet Montefiore, Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History, Women's History Review, vol. 7, no.2, 1998, pp. 275-276. ISSN: 0961 2025 (800 words).

'"To Defend the Oppressed, to Fight for the Defenceless not Counting the Cost"': The History of the Women's Suffrage Movement', Gender and History, vol.10, no.2, August, 1998, pp.312-5. ISSN 0953-5233.

Jenny Hartley, Millions Like Us: British Women's Fiction of Second World War and Gill Plain, Women's Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power and Resistance, Critical Survey, vol 10, no 2, 1998, pp. 83-5. ISNN: 0011 1570. (1200 words).

Judith Adamson, Charlotte Haldane: Woman Writer in a Man's World, Women: A Cultural Review, 1999, vol.9, no 3, p. ISSN 057 40429. (1500 words).

Phyllis Lassner, British Women Writers of World War Two and Heather Ingham, Women's Fiction Between the Wars, Literature and History, vol.9, no 1, spring 2000, pp.110-111. ISSN 0306-1973 (800 words).

Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: a Life, Women: a Cultural Review, 2001, vol. 12, no.1, spring 2001, pp.105-108.ISSN 057 4042. (1950 words).

David Ayers, The Literature of the 1920s, Literature and History, vol. 10, no 1, spring 2001, p. 88. ISSN 0306-1973. (600 words).

Barbara Will, Gertrude Stein: Modernism, and the Problem of "Genius", Literature and History, vol. 10, no 1, spring 2001, p. 86. ISSN 0306-1973 (550 words).

Sharon Ouditt, Women Writers of the First World War: an Annotated Bibliography and Claire Tylee with Elaine Turner and Agnes Cardinal (eds), War Plays by Women: an International Anthology, Literature and History, vol.10, no 2, autumn 2001, pp.113-15. ISSN 0306-1973. (870 words).

John Stokes (ed.), Eleanor Marx (1855-1898) Life, Work, Contacts, Women: a Cultural Review, 2003, vol. 14 no.1, pp.110-112. ISSN 57 4042. (1200 words).

Patricia Harrison, Connecting Links: The British and American Women's Suffrage Movements 1900-1914 and Martin Pugh, The March of the Women, Signs: a Journal of Women in Culture, autumn 2003, vol. 29, pp. 233-6. ISSN 0097-9740 (2000 words).

Thomas Foster, Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing, Literature and History. ISSN 0306-1973. (600 words).

Judy Giles, The Parlour and the Suburb, Women's History Magazine, spring 2005, pp.33-34. ISSN 1476-6760. (800 words).

Diana Wallace, The Woman's Historical Novel, Women: a Cultural Review, vol 17, 1, 2006, ISSN 057 4042. (850 words).

Jude Davis, Diana: a Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess, Literature and History. lSSN 0306-1973. (600 words).

Deborah Simonton (ed.) The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700, Women: a Cultural Review, vol 17, 3, 2006, pp 296-99. ISSN 057 40429. (650 words).

Cathy Clay, British Women Writers 1914-1945, Gender and History, vol 15, no 3, November 2007, pp. 291-293. ISBN 0953-5233. (1000 words).

Sarah Gamble, Angela Carter: a Literary Life', Women: a Cultural Review, vol 18,1, 2007, pp.110-12. ISSN 057 40429. (1000 words).

Chiara Briganti and Kathy Mezei, Domestic Modernism, The Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young, Women: a Cultural Review, vol 18, no 2, 2007, pp. 216-218. ISSN 057 40429. (910 words)

Emma Liggins, George Gissing, The Working Woman and Urban Culture and Susan Hamilton, Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism, The Journal of Victorian Culture Volume 13, no 1, Spring 2008, pp. 133-8. ISSN 057 40429. (2000 words).

Deborah Phillips, 'Women's Fiction 1945-2005', Contemporary Women's Writing, vol 1, no 2, spring 2008, Women's Fiction 1945-2005: Writing Romance, Contemporary Women's Writing, June 2008; no 2: pp. 86 - 88. ISSN 1754 1476. (950 words).

Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor, Women: a Cultural Review, 21:3, December 2010 (in press).

Short Reviews
(500 words or less)

David Alfred (ed.), The Robert Tressell Lectures 1981-1988, 7 Days, 10 June, 1989, p. (450 words).

Robin Gable (ed.), Raymond Williams, Resources of Hope, 7 Days, September,1990, p. (450 words).

Andy Croft, Red Letter Days, New Times, January, 1991, p. (450 words).

Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars, New Times, May, 1992, p. 6 (450 words).

Michael Rosen (ed.), The Chatto Book of Dissent, New Times, September 4, 1992, p. 8 (450 words).

Phyllis Rose (ed.), The Penguin Book of Women's Lives, New Times, date not known (approximately 450 words).

David Margolies, Monsters of the Deep, New Times, date not known (450 words).

Nigel Wheale (ed.),The Postmodern Arts, The Lecturer, June, 1996, p.14 (400 words).

Lizbeth Goodman et al (eds), Gender and Drama, and Dennis Walder (ed.), The Realist Novel, The Lecturer, December, 1996, pp.19-20 (400 words).

Simon Featherstone (ed.), Poetry and War: An Introductory Reader, The Lecturer, February,1997, p.13 (400 words).

Janet Montefiore, Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History, The Lecturer, February, 1988, p.14, (400 words).

Gill Allwood, French Feminisms: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Theory, European Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 10, no 1, April 1999, p. 127 (300 words).

Clare Hanson, Hysterical Fictions: The 'Woman's Novel' in the Twentieth Century, and Diana Wallace, Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction 1914-39,The Lecturer, June 2001, p.19 (400 words).

Study Packs

Lizzie Thynne (ed.), Studying Film: A Guide and Activity Pack written by Jim Cook, Maroula Joannou and Lizzie Thynne (London: British Film Institute and Workers' Educational Association, 1990).

External Examining of Ph.D Thesis in Other Universities

Anne Holden Ronning, 'Hidden and Visible Suffrage: Emancipation and the Edwardian Woman in Galsworthy, Forster and Wells', Bergen University, Norway, 1995.

Hannan Mahmud Ibrahim, 'Tales of Two Houses: A Comparative Study Between Some Arab and British Feminist Novels', The University of Kent, 2000.

Alison Creedon,'Representations of Suburban Culture 1890-1914', Leeds University, 2002.

Mary Grover, 'The Authenticity of the Middlebrow: Warwick Deeping and Cultural Legitimacy: 1903-1940', Sheffield Hallam University, 2002.

Sarah Shaw, 'Traces of Empire, Seeds of Desire: Africa and Women in the Novels of Naomi Mitchison', Essex University, 2002.

Vivian Tee Vee Wong, 'Between Self and Subjectivity: Women in the Novels of Jean Rhys', M.Phil, Hong Kong University, 2003.

Cathia Jenainati, 'Narrating the Self: Memory as Narrative Strategy in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood', Warwick University, 2003.

James Pridmore, 'Fiction and Subversion in the 1930s', Nottingham Trent University, 2005.

Gemma Bristowe, 'The Making of Imagism', Cambridge University, 2006.

Sarah Bruton, 'Representations of the Witch in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing', Cardiff University, 2007.

Christina Alt, 'Virginia Woolf and the Natural Sciences', Oxford University, 2007.

Liz Cox, 'Bridling her Neck of Ivory and Curling her Lip of Carmine': Gothic Narratives of Lesbian Identity and Desire in British Women's Fiction 1840-1890, University of Warwick, 2008.

Christine Hodgson, 'The London Imagination: The City in the Work of Some Twentieth-Century Novelists 1920-1978', University of London, 2009.

Rocio Carrasco, 'Of Men and Cyborgs: The Construction of Masculinity in Contemporary US Science Fiction Cinema', University of Huelva, Spain, 2010. (This thesis was examined in Spain and awarded a Ph.D under the European regulations).

Erica Brown, 'Comedy and the Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim', Sheffield Hallam University, 2011.

Mary Jacobs, 'Gender, Genre and Politics in the Literary Work of Sylvia Townsend Warner',The University of Plymouth University, 2011. An Aegrotat Ph.D was awarded to the late MaryJacobs based on the critical assessment of her published work which was submitted to the Vice Chancellor and supported by Professor Janet Montefiore.

Leanne Bibby, 'Necessary Laminations: Women and the Figure of the Intellectual in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt', Leeds Metropolitan University, 2012.

Marion Dell, 'The Victorian Antecedents of Virginia Woolf',The Open University, 2012.

Peer Review for Academic Journals

I have peer reviewed for:

• Women's History Review
• Women's History Magazine
• Auto-Biography
• Women Writing
• The Journal of Victorian Culture

Publishers' Reader

I read manuscripts for:

• Ashgate
• Broadview
• Palgrave
• Taylor and Francis
• Berg
• Manchester University Press
• Oxford University Press, etc.

Conferences

I have organised the following conferences:

• Elizabeth Taylor (2012)
• Rosamond Lehmann - with Clare Hanson (2009)
• Winifred Holtby - with Marion Shaw (2007)
• Sylvia Townsend Warner - with Dr Gill Davies (2006)
• Storm Jameson - with Chiara Briganti and Jennifer Birkett (2005)
• The Literature of the 1930s (2000)
• The Literature of the 1930s: Visions and Revisions (1997)