Happily Ever After?: Women's Fiction in Postwar Britain 1945-60

by Niamh Baker

Overview

This work looks at the body of women's fiction written in postwar Britain, up to 1960. It examines the myth of the fairy tale ending and what changes the postwar period has wrought in subverting stereotypes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333460412
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/20/1989
Series:	Women in Society: A Feminist List Series
Edition description:	1989
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

A myth of happiness; something to love - heroines and their heroes; happily ever after? - the consequences of acceptance; odd women; "remember Madame Bovary" - infidelity; ugly sisters; children - "strange unexpected flowerings"; women and work; fictions - subverting the stereotypes; conclusions.