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Index
Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Poetry Publications and Enterprises by Women, 1910-1939
1 Introduction
2 The Literary Context
Introduction
Escaping the Feminine
'Would-be manliness': Gender, Politics and Poetic Form
Publishing and Literary Criticism: 'Our War is with Words'
Women's Initiatives
3 Rear-Guard Modernism
Introduction
Women's Poetry and the First World War
Between the Georgians and Bloomsbury: Frances Cornford (1886-1960) and Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
4 The British Avant-Garde: Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) and the Women of Wheels - Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), Iris Tree (1897-1968) and Helen Rootham (d. 1938)
Introduction
Wheels (1916-1921)
Edith Sitwell
Nancy Cunard, Iris Tree and Helen Rootham
5 The Anglo-American Avant-Garde: H.D. (1886-1961), Amy Lowell (1874-1925), Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991), Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Mina Loy (1882-1966)
Introduction
H.D., Amy Lowell and Imagism
Marianne Moore, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy
6 Female Modernism
Introduction
'Female Consciousness': Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) and May Sinclair (1863-1946)
New Woman Poets: Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950), Anna Wickham (1884-1947) and Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
7 The 1930s: Cultural Politics and the Poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Nancy Cunard, Winifred Holtby, Naomi Mitchison and Stevie Smith
Introduction
8 Conclusion: The Legacy of Modernism
Bibliography
Index
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