British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature
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Alternative Domestic Spaces
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Amateur Prostitute
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Boarding House
Boarding House Rooms
British Boarding House
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Common Lodging Houses
Dental Secretary
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Female Boarder
gendered living spaces
Home Town
Independent Woman
Indian Students
Landlady's Daughter
Landlady’s Daughter
Lodging House
Lolly Willowes
London Boarding House
Miss Baker
modernist domesticity
Original Ellipsis
queer literary studies
Richardson's Pilgrimage
Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Shabby Genteel
single women's independence
social class mobility
Traditional Family Home
women's interwar fiction
Women's Lodging Houses
Women's Penny Paper
Women’s Lodging Houses
Women’s Penny Paper
Woolf's Depictions
Woolf’s Depictions
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781472471208
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Embraced for the dramatic opportunities afforded by a house full of strangers, the British boarding house emerged as a setting for novels published during the interwar period by a diverse range of women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf. To use the single room in the boarding house or bedsit, Terri Mullholland argues, is to foreground a particular experience. While the single room represents the freedoms of independent living available to women in the early twentieth century, it also marks the precariousness of unmarried women’s lives. By placing their characters in this transient space, women writers could explore women's changing social roles and complex experiences – amateur prostitution, lesbian relationships, extra-marital affairs, and abortion – outside traditional domestic narrative concerns. Mullholland presents new readings of works by canonical and non-canonical writers, including Stella Gibbons, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. A hybrid of the modernist and realist domestic fiction written and read by women, the literature of the single room merges modernism's interest in interior psychological states with the realism of precisely documented exterior spaces, offering a new mode of engagement with the two forms of interiority.
Terri Mullholland holds a doctorate in English from the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research interests are in early twentieth-century women’s writing and the intersections of literature and spatial theory. She has published on Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair, and is co-editor of Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and Architecture (2015).
