Contemporary British Women Writers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Sybille Bedford: A Paradise of Dainty Devices

   • Robert Owen Evans

   Pages 1-25

3. Paradigm and Passage: The Fiction of Anita Brookner

   • Robert E. Hosmer Jr.

   Pages 26-54

4. The Great Ventriloquist: A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance

   • Ann Hulbert

   Pages 55-65

5. The Real Magic of Angela Carter

   • Walter Kendrick

   Pages 66-84

6. The Strange Clarity of Distance: History, Myth, and Imagination in the Novels of Isabel Colegate

   • Brett T. Averitt

   Pages 85-104

7. ‘Magic or Miracles’: The Fallen World of Penelope Fitzgerald’s Novels

   • Jean Sudrann

   Pages 105-127

8. Enclosed Structures, Disclosed Lives: The Fictions of Susan Hill

   • Ernest H. Hofer

   Pages 128-150

9. Sex, Snobbery and the Strategies of Molly Keane

   • Clare Boylan

   Pages 151-160

10. Muriel Spark and the Oxymoronic Vision

    • Joseph Hynes

    Pages 161-187

11. ‘See Me As Sisyphus, But Having A Good Time’: the Fiction of Fay Weldon

    • Jenny Newman

    Pages 188-211

12. Back Matter

    Pages 212-214

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Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Isabel Colegate, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Hill, Molly Keane, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. Each essay focuses on several novels, selected to reveal the novelist's consistent concerns and characteristic strategies. Individual bibliographies provide a full sense of the novelist's work as well as a discriminating guide to the best critical work available.

• fiction
• novel
• women

• Smith College, Northampton, USA

  Robert E. Hosmer

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