Women Novelists and their Novels in the First Half of Twentieth Century

Dr Pradnya S Yenkar

doi:10.22161/ijels.4436

Abstract

Women Novelists and their Novels in the First Half of Twentieth Century

Highlights

Round about 1910-12, when Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, and Conrad were maintaining the prestige of the traditional type of English novel, a group ofwomen novelist began to produce able and promising work
Elizabeth Robins explained her use of a pseudonym as a means of keeping her acting and writing careers separate but gave it up when the media reported that Robins and Raimond were the same
Rose Macaulay communicates a feeling of genuine excitement to the reader, as though he were meeting these eminent people

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INTRODUCTION

Round about 1910-12, when Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, and Conrad were maintaining the prestige of the traditional type of English novel, a group ofwomen novelist began to produce able and promising work. ELIZAB ETH ROBINS (1862-1952) Elizabeth Robins was an American actress, novelist, playwright, short story author, novelist, suffragist campaigner, journalist, and theatre manager who spent most of her career in Britain As a dramatist, she is best known for her play ‘Votes for Women’ (1907), which played a central role in the suffrage movement. Her unpublished works, housed in the New York University Library’s Fales Collection, are extensive and largely unexplored, and include letters, diaries, journals, promptbooks, plays, novels, and other prose works Robins wrote constantly, both nonfiction and fiction, and continued to spearhead the women’s suffrage movement. May Sinclair showed much ability in portraying drab and mean lives, with their jumbled pathos, kindness, and folly in the novels ‘The Devine Fire’ and ‘The Combined Maze’(1913) She came under the influence of Freud’s psycho-analytical theories and of Dorothy Richardson’s literary methods.‘May Oliver’. The book is marred by passages of excessive realism, through May Sinclair’s tiny realistic touches are always significant

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