In a volume based on a feminist conference held in 2000 at the City College of New York, Hackett (English, U. of New Hampshire) and her co-editors introduce 11 essays that treat how the lives
and writing of women in England reflect the upheavals of the Depression, approaching war, and rising British anti-Semitism. These varied writings, formerly assessed as part of a generation of a
largely aesthetically failed literature, reflect diverse political and social positions on currently relevant themes of war, imperialism, patriotism, dissent, and the disappearance of a way of
life. Critical reevaluations of writers including Agatha Christie, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Dorothy Sayers effectively counter this myth. Distributed by Associated
University Presses. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
