This collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contribution to

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genr

This important collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contr

Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is onl

In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of th