Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists

Abstract

Part 1 After the war: Simone de Beauvoir Doris Lessing Nathalie Sarraute. Part 2 Displaced persons: Christina Stead Jean Rhys Elizabeth Smart Tillie Olsen Francoise Sagan. Part 3 The middle group: Iris Murdoch Edna O'Brien Margaret Drabble Mary McCarthy. Part 4 The movement: Joyce Johnson Kate Millett Erica Jong Diana Johnson Marilyn French. Part 5 Divided amongst ourselves: Fay Weldon Margaret Atwood Angela Carter Toni Morrison Joyce Carol Oates.