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By Mary Eagleton

If the writer is "dead," if feminism is "post-," why does the determine of the girl writer hold showing as a important personality in modern fiction? Drawing on a various variety of latest authors--including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, Le Guin, Michele Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker--this research explores the complexity and carrying on with fascination of this determine.

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