Flight Behaviour
Barbara Kingsolver
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing ...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in ...
Flight Behaviour
Barbara Kingsolver
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing ...
Rebecca West
Victoria Glendinning
'I had never met anything like her before', H. G. Wells wrote of meeting Rebecca West in 1913, 'and I doubt if there ever was anything like her before.'
Born ...
The Equality Illusion
Kat Banyard
Today it is widely believed that feminism has achieved its aims, and that women and men have achieved equality. This, quite simply, is an illusion.
Women working full time in ...
The Equality Illusion
Kat Banyard
Today it is widely believed that feminism has achieved its aims, and that women and men have achieved equality. This, quite simply, is an illusion.
Women working full time in ...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in ...
The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth
Ethel Smyth
Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was an exceptional woman in an age rich in strong personalities. Best known for her opera The Wreckers , her music, long neglected, is gradually winning new ...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in ...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in ...
Our Treacherous Hearts
Ros Coward
Our Treacherous Hearts formed the basis for a Channel Four documentary in the 'Female Parts' series.
'From a hardline feminist point of view, women have turned out to be a ...
Seize the Fire
Tom Paulin
After the success of The Riot Act, his version of Sophocles's Antigone, Tom Paulin turned his formidable powers of transformation on Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Commissioned by the Open ...