This anthology draws upon extensive new research to collect for the first time in one volume the Shakespeare criticism of some fifty British and American women writing before 1900. it includes the work of both familiar and unknown names and represents the diversity of literary genres used by women: the scholarly article, the periodical essay, book-length studies, personal memoirs, book for children, school editions.
Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.