Roomscape Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf - Bernstein, Susan David (Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
Description based upon print version of record
Examines the Reading Room of the British Museum as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early twentieth-century London. Drawing on archival materials around this national library reading room, Roomscape is the first study that integrates documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this public interior space for women writers and their treatment of reading and writing spaces in literary texts. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the Br
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: British Museum; Geschichte 1850-1941; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Geschichte; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women authors -- Societies, etc; Reading rooms -- England -- London -- History; Authorship; Lesesaal; Englisch; Frauenliteratur; Schriftstellerin