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1 Notes Introduction 1 Rosalind Coward, This Novel Changes Lives : Are Women s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O Rourke s Article Summer Reading, Feminist Review 5 (1980), reprinted in full in Elaine Showalter (ed.), The New Feminist Criticism (London: Virago, 1986) and in part in Mary Eagleton (ed.), Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986, second edition 1996). 2 Elaine Showalter (ed.), The New Feminist Criticism (London: Virago, 1986), pp Maroula Joannou, Ladies, Please Don t Smash These Windows : Women s Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change (Oxford: Berg, 1995), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 4 Following Joannou, I define feminist, used as an adjective, in terms of a disposition to question patriarchal attitudes, while feminine denotes the behaviour expected of women (which of course varies from culture to culture). 5 Nicola Beauman, A Very Great Profession: The Woman s Novel (London: Virago, 1983, reprinted with new foreword 1995), p Olga Kenyon, Women Novelists Today: a Survey of English Writing in the Seventies and Eighties (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1988), p See A. S. Byatt, Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings, first published 1991 (London: Vintage, 1993), p. 268; The Shadow of the Sun, first published 1964 (London: Vintage, 1991), p. xii. 8 Interview with Anita Brookner in Olga Kenyon, Women Writers Talk (Oxford: Lennard Publishing, 1989), p Hilary Radner, Extra-Curricular Activities: Women Writers and the Readerly Text, in Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram (eds), Women s Writing in Exile (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 10 See Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans Richard Miller (London: Cape, 1976). 11 Hilary Radner, Out of Category : The Middlebrow Novel, in Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure (London: Routledge, 1995), pp Margaret Drabble, The Millstone, first published 1965 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), p For an account of women s education in this period see Jane McDermid, Women and Education, in June Purvis (ed.), Women s History: Britain, (London: UCL Press, 1995), pp Figures taken from Deirdre Beddoe, Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, (London: Pandora, 1989), pp

2 Notes Figures taken from Janette Webb, The Ivory Tower: Positive Action for Women in Higher Education, in Angela Coyle and Jane Skinner (eds), Women and Work: Positive Action for Change (London: Macmillan, 1988), p Beauman, p A. S. Byatt, Passions of the Mind, p Cate Haste, Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain World War 1 to the Present (London: Pimlico, 1992), p. 89. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 19 See Victoria Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, first published 1977 (London: Phoenix, 1993), pp Quoted in Haste, Rules of Desire, p Sheila Rowbotham, Woman s Consciousness, Man s World (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), p Rosamond Lehmann, The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life (London: Collins, 1967), p On this see Celia Lury, Consumer Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996), p Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998), p. 48. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 25 Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, trans. Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p Luce Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, trans. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (London: the Athlone Press, 1993), pp Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 27 Luce Irigaray, Questions to Emmanuel Levinas, in Margaret Whitford (ed.) The Irigaray Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), p I am grateful to Andrea Peterson for drawing this aspect of Battersby s argument to my attention. 29 Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism m (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London: Routledge, 1990), p. x. 31 Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (London: Routledge, 1993), pp Rosi Braidotti, Patterns of Dissonance: A Study of Women in Contemporary Philosophy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), p Julia Kristeva, Stabat Mater, in Kelly Oliver (ed.), The Portable Kristeva (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), p Interview with Anita Brookner in Olga Kenyon, Women Writers Talk, p Lehmann, p Glendinning, p Elizabeth Taylor, At Mrs Lippincote s, first published 1945 (London: Virago, 1988), pp. v vii. 38 Janet Todd (ed.), Women Writers Talking (London: Holmes & Meier, 1983), p Ibid., p Interview with Anita Brookner in John Haffenden, Novelists in Interview (London: Methuen, 1985), p. 73.

3 174 Notes Chapter 1 Rosamond Lehmann 1 Rosamond Lehmann, The Swan in the Evening (London: Collins, 1967), p Woolf knew Rosamond Lehmann and had read Dusty Answer. See The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. III, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (London: Hogarth Press, 1980), pp The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. III, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, pp Quoted in Virginia Woolf, Women and Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of A Room of One s Own, transcribed and edited by S. P. Rosenbaum (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), p. xviii. 5 Rosamond Lehmann, Dusty Answer, first published 1927 (London: Flamingo, 1996), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 6 See Hilary Radner, Extra-Curricular Activities: Women Writers and the Readerly Text, in Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram (eds), Women s Writing in Exile (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). 7 Hélène Cixous and Cathérine Clement, The Newly Born Woman, trans. Betsy Wing (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986), p See Judy Simons, Rosamond Lehmann (London: Macmillan, 1992), pp Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), p. 277, n Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, first published 1949 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), p. 653, my emphasis. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 11 Judy Simons, Rosamond Lehmann, p Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets, first published 1936 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 13 Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source (London: Book Society in association with Collins, 1944), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 14 See Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978). 15 Rosamond Lehmann, The Future of the Novel, quoted in Sydney Janet Kaplan, Feminine Consciousness in the Modern British Novel (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1975), p See the essays collected in Melanie Klein, Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works, (London: Virago, 1988). 17 Rosamond Lehmann, The Echoing Grove, first published 1953 (London: Flamingo, 1996), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 18 See Alison Light, Introduction, in Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (London: Routledge, 1991). 19 See Margaret Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (London: Routledge, 1991), p. 47, for a discussion of these ideas. 20 Janet Watts, Introduction to Rosamond Lehmann, A Sea-Grape Tree, first published 1976 (London: Virago, 1982, repr. 1993). This edition has a Postscript by Rosamond Lehmann. 21 Judy Simons, Rosamond Lehmann, p. 131.

4 Notes Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine, p Luce Irigaray, The Bodily Encounter with the Mother in Margaret Whitford (ed.), The Irigaray Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), pp Ibid., p Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine, p Ibid., p Luce Irigaray, Questions to Emmanuel Levinas, in Whitford (ed.), The Irigaray Reader, p Luce Irigaray, He Risks Who Risks Life Itself, in Whitford (ed.), The Irigaray Reader, p Chapter 2 Elizabeth Bowen 1 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (London: Athlone Press, 1988). Subsequent references will be incorporated into the text. 2 Elizabeth Grosz, A Thousand Tiny Sexes: Feminism and Rhizomatics, in Constantin V. Boundas and Dorothea Olkowski (eds), Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1994). 3 Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (London: Athlone Press, 1987), p Grosz, p Elizabeth Bowen, To the North, first published 1932 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1945), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 6 Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, p. 70, quoted in John Hughes, Lines of Flight: Reading Deleuze with Hardy, Gissing, Conrad, Woolf (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997). 7 Aurelia Armstrong, Some Reflections on Deleuze s Spinoza: Composition and Agency, in Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer (London: Routledge, 1997), p Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, first published 1935 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 9 Compare John Hughes s important point about the orphan as an outsiderfigure in nineteenth-century literature. See Lines of Flight, p Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart, first published 1938 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1972), p. 22. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 11 Grosz, p Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, p Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day, first published 1949 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 14 Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives (London: Macmillan, 1995), p Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, first published 1955 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 16 Quoted from Time magazine on the cover of the Penguin Modern Classics edition of the novel (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983).

5 176 Notes Chapter 3 Elizabeth Taylor 1 Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, trans. Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985). 2 Rosi Braidotti, Patterns of Dissonance (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), p Margaret Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine e (London: Routledge, 1991), p Patsy Stoneman, Brontë Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996), p Elizabeth Taylor, Palladian, first published 1946 (London: Virago, 1985), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 6 See Hilary Radner, Extra-Curricular Activities: Women Writers and the Readerly Text, in Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram (eds), Women s Writing in Exile (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). 7 It is interesting in relation to the genesis of Palladian to note that the film of Rebecca came out in the same year as Pride and Prejudice, as did that of Wuthering Heights, with Laurence Olivier playing the male lead in all three films. 8 See Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, in Visual and Other Pleasures (London: Macmillan, 1989); see also Angela Carter s Curious Room (London: BBC1 Omnibus Video, 1992). 9 Virginia Woolf, The Waves, first published 1931 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses, first published 1949 (London: Reprint Society, 1950), pp Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 11 Luce Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, quoted in Whitford, p Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve, first published 1977 (London: Virago, 1982), p Julia Kristeva, Women s Time in Kelly Oliver (ed.), The Portable Kristeva (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), p Ibid., p Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek, first published 1951 (London: Book Club, 1951), p. 7. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 16 Jacqueline Rose, Sexuality in the Reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure, in Cyrus Hoy (ed.), the Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1992), p Quoted in Nicola Beauman, A Very Great Profession: The Woman s Novel (London: Virago, 1995), pp Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women in Michèle Barrett (ed.) Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing (London: Women s Press, 1988), p Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty, first published 1953 (London: Virago, 1982), p. 1. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 20 Braidotti, p. 253, as above.

6 Notes Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp Robert Liddell, Elizabeth and Ivy (London: Peter Owen, 1986), p Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998), p Elizabeth Taylor, The Wedding Group, first published 1968 (London: Virago, 1985), p For the connection with Eric Gill, see chapter 7 of his Autobiography (London: Jonathan Cape, 1940). See also John Crompton, All Done By Mirrors: Reflectivity in the Novels of Elizabeth Taylor ( ), unpublished PhD thesis, University of Hull, Battersby, p Quoted in Elizabeth Jane Howard s introduction to the Virago edition of The Wedding Group, p. ix. Chapter 4 Margaret Drabble 1 Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1996), p Arendt is referred to in The Gates of Ivory, first published (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992), p. 13, and her book The Burden of Our Time (London: Secker & Warburg, 1951) appears in the bibliography. 3 Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998), p. 7 (her italics). 4 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 9. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 5 Benhabib, p Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, first published 1949 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), p Margaret Drabble, The Waterfall, first published 1969 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), p. 9. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 8 Margaret Drabble, The Needle s Eye, first published 1972 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 9 Margaret Drabble, The Realms of Gold, first published 1975 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), pp Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 10 See the interview with Margaret Drabble in Janet Todd (ed.), Women Writers Talking (New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1983), p See Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Ambiguities of Female Identity: A Reading of the Novels of Margaret Drabble, Partisan Review 46:2, 1979, p Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground, first published 1980 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 39. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 13 See Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985) for the development of this idea. 14 Battersby, p. 201.

7 178 Notes 15 Morton Schoolman, Introduction, Benhabib, p. xxi, my italics. 16 Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way, first published 1987 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988), p. 17. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 17 Julia Kristeva, Women s Time in Kelly Oliver (ed.), The Portable Kristeva (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1997), p See Jacqueline Rose, Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis in Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993). 19 See the interview with Margaret Drabble in Olga Kenyon (ed.), Women Writers Talk (Oxford: Lennard Publishing, 1989), p Sigmund Freud, From the History of an Infantile Neurosis in Collected Papers, vol. III (London: Hogarth Press, 1925), p See Sedgwick, as above, and Luce Irigaray, Women on the Market in This Sex Which Is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p Nicole Ward Jouve, The Streetcleaner : The Yorkshire Ripper Case on Trial (London and New York: Marion Boyars Publishers, 1986). 23 Medusa s Head in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. XVIII (London: Hogarth Press, 1955), p Margaret Drabble, Women Writers as an Unprotected Species in Judy Simons and Kate Fullbrook (eds), Writing: A Woman s Business (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998), p Benhabib, p Chapter 5 A. S. Byatt 1 Interview with A. S. Byatt in Nicholas Tredell, Conversations with Critics (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994), p Hilary Radner, Extra-Curricular Activities: Women Writers and the Readerly Text, in Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram (eds), Women s Writing in Exile (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), p In her Introduction to The Shadow of the Sun, for example, Byatt writes that the underlying shape of [the novel] is dictated by Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamond Lehmann, and a vague dissatisfaction with this state of affairs. See The Shadow of the Sun, first published 1964 (London: Vintage, 1991), p. xii. 4 A. S. Byatt, Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings, first published 1991 (London: Vintage, 1993), p See T. S. Eliot s essay The Metaphysical Poets in Frank Kermode (ed.), Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot (London: Faber & Faber, 1975) and Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, first published as Les Mots et les choses in 1966 (London: Routledge, 1997). 6 A. S. Byatt, Passions of the Mind, pp (her translation). 7 Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, p John Milton, Paradise Lost (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989), pp Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, first published 1949 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), p. 653.

8 Notes A. S. Byatt, Introduction to The Shadow of the Sun, p. xiv. 11 Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, trans. Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p Ibid., pp , my italics. Irigaray quotes directly from Plotinus here. 13 F. R. Leavis, D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, first published 1955 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976), p S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (London: J. M. Dent, 1984), p A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, p. 15. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 16 See Paradise Lost, V, ll : So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the bright consummate flow r Spirits odorous breathes: flow rs and their fruit Man s nourishment, by gradual scale sublim d To vital Spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual. See also Stéphane Mallarmé, Oeuvres Complètes, p. 859 for a discussion of the perfect Idea of a flower, the idée même et suave, l absente de tous bouquets. 17 Walter Benjamin, Paris the capital of the nineteenth century, in Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Verso, 1983), p A. S. Byatt, in Tredell, p A. S. Byatt, The Game, first published 1967 (London: Vintage, 1992), p. 18. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 20 Interview with A. S. Byatt in Janet Todd (ed.), Women Writers Talking (New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1983), p A. S. Byatt in Tredell, p Frances Yates, Queen Elizabeth I as Astraea in Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), p. 87, my italics. 23 A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden, first published 1978 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 24 See A. S. Byatt in Tredell, p Ibid., p Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies, trans. Gillian C. Gill (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1993), p Julia Kristeva, Stabat Mater in Kelly Oliver (ed.), The Portable Kristeva (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp The line Byatt ascribes to Virgil, They have their own lights, seems to be a reminiscence of the description of the Homes of the Blest in Aeneid VI, ll , which the Penguin translation gives as Here an ampler air clothes the plains with brilliant light, and always they see a sun and stars that are theirs alone (p. 166). I am grateful to Gill Spraggs for this reference.

9 180 Notes 29 See A. S. Byatt in Todd, p The Portable Kristeva, p A. S. Byatt, Still Life, first published 1985 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), p. 94. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 32 See A. S. Byatt in Tredell, pp The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. XVIII (London: Hogarth Press, 1955), p See A. S. Byatt in Todd, p A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance, first published 1990 (London: Vintage, 1991), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 36 Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies, p Ibid., p. 59. Chapter 6 Anita Brookner 1 Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, first published 1984 (London: Triad/Panther Books, 1985), p. 27. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 2 See Janice Radway, Reading the Romance (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984). 3 See Bridget Fowler, The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991), chapter 2. 4 Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, first published 1959, vols 1 3, trans. N. and S. Plaice and P. Knight (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), p. 3. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 5 Anita Brookner, A Start in Life, first published 1981 (London: Triad/ Granada, 1982), p. 8. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 6 Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992), p Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet, trans. Marion Ayton Crawford (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976), p Melanie Klein, Weaning, in Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works , with a new introduction by Hanna Segal (London: Virago, 1988), p Melitta Schmideberg, Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders, trans. Robert Gillett and Jacqueline Rose, in Jacqueline Rose, Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p Interview with Anita Brookner in John Haffenden, Novelists in Interview (London: Methuen, 1985), p Ibid., p Anita Brookner, Providence, first published 1982 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991), p Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 13 She quotes, for example, this passage from the Preface (the translation is provided by one of Kitty s students):

10 Notes 181 But when one sees the anguish that results from these broken attachments, the painful astonishment of a deceived soul, that mistrust that succeeds perfect trust... one feels, then, that there is something sacred in the heart that suffers because it loves; one discovers how deep are the roots of the affection one thought to inspire without sharing it; and if one overcomes what one calls weakness, it is by destroying in oneself all that was generous, by tearing up all that was faithful, by sacrificing all that was noble and good. (p. 47) 14 Giddens, p Ibid. 16 Kelly Oliver (ed.), The Portable Kristeva (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp Interview with Anita Brookner in Olga Kenyon, Women Writers Talk (Oxford: Lennard Publishing, 1989), p Maud Ellmann, The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment (London: Virago, 1993), p Anita Brookner, Brief Lives, first published 1990 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991), p. 12. The title comes from John Aubrey s seventeenth century Brief Lives. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 20 See Jane Eyre, chapter 2: A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre... Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane. 21 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, first published 1949 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), p. 664, my italics. 22 Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, reprinted in The Pelican Freud Library, vol. 7 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), pp Ibid., p Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love, Pelican Freud Library, vol. 7, p Sigmund Freud, Family Romances, Pelican Freud Library, vol. 7, pp Anita Brookner, A Family Romance, first published 1993 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994), p. 30. Subsequent references are incorporated into the text. 27 See Sigmund Freud, Female Sexuality, Pelican Freud Library, vol. 7, pp Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Pelican Freud Library, vol. 7, p. 71.

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17 188 Index Index abjection active destruction 54 5 amour passion 150, 155, 158 Arendt, Hannah 22, , 104, 106 8, 112, , 120, 177n The Human Condition 97, 98, 100, 104, 112 Armstrong, Aurelia 55, 58, 175n Arnold, Matthew 111 Empedocles on Etna 111 Auden, Wyston Musée des Beaux Arts 153 Balzac, Honoré de 150 1, 180n Eugénie Grandet Un Début dans la vie 152 Barrett, Michèle 17 Barthes, Roland 5, 172n Battersby, Christine 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 93 6, 97, 113, 173n Beauman, Nicola 2, 8, 172n Beauvoir, Simone de 16, 21, 29 30, 33, 40, 45, 100 1, 123 4, 162, 164, 174n The Second Sex 29 30, 33, 40, 100, 162, 164 Beckett, Samuel 92 3 becoming-animal 62 becoming-woman 48, 49, 52, 54, 55, 59, 72 Beddoe, Deirdre 172n Benhabib, Seyla 22, 97, 98, 99, 107, , 120, 177n Benjamin, Walter 127, 179n Bennett, Andrew 175n Bergson, Henri 15 Bloch, Ernst 24, 147, 148, 149, 157, 158, 159, 162, 163, 171, 180n The Principle of Hope 147, 157, 159 Body without Organs (BwO) 63 Bowen, Elizabeth 10, 21, 24, 48 73, 96, 175n A World of Love The Death of the Heart The Heat of the Day 64 9 The House in Paris 55 9 To the North 50 5 Braidotti, Rosi 21 2, 74, 173n breastfeeding 83 4, 93 Brief Encounter 86 7 Brookner, Anita 3, 10, 23, 24, , 172n A Family Romance A Start in Life Brief Lives Hotel du Lac Providence Brontë, Charlotte 56 Butler, Judith 16, 17, 18, 49, 173n Byatt, A. S. 3, 10, 23, 24, , 172n Babel Tower 123 Passions of the Mind 122 Possession 121, 126, Still Life The Game 124, The Shadow of the Sun 121, The Virgin in the Garden 124, Carter, Angela 80, 83, 144, 162, 176n Nights at the Circus 144 Cassandra (mythical character of ) Ceres 23, 124, 133, 134, 138, 145 Chodorow, Nancy 35, 147, 174n circulating library, the 8 Cixous, Hélène 17, 27, 142, 174n The Newly Born Woman 27 classical tradition, the 76 7, 78, 110, 111 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 125, 130, 179n 188

18 Index 189 Compton-Burnett, Ivy 92 3 Constant, Benjamin Adolphe contraception, access to 9 Coward, Rosalind 1, 24, 172n Coyle, Angela 173n Craig, Amanda 11 Crompton, John 94, 177n d Arras, Jean 143 daydream, the 148 death wish 111, 140 Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari 21, 22, 48 50, 52, 62, 63 4, 66, 71, 72, 175n A Thousand Plateaus 48, 52, 62, 66, 71 Demeter 44, 120, 124, 133 déréliction 30, 75, 171 Dickens, Monica 10 Dis 135 dissertation novel, the 6, 7 Drabble, Margaret 6 7, 10, 16, 22, 23, 24, , 172n The Gates of Ivory 97 The Middle Ground The Millstone 6 7 The Radiant Way The Realms of Gold , 140 The Waterfall du Maurier, Daphne 75 Eagleton, Mary 172n education, girls and women s 7 8 egalitarian feminism 16 Eliot, T. S. 34, 122, 178n The Waste Land 34 Elizabeth I Ellmann, Maud 160, 181n essentialism 14, 15, 20 ethics of labour, an , 103, 113, 114, 115 Faerie Queene, The 122 female embodiment 16, 19, 20, 21, 74 First World War 39 Foucault, Michel 122 3, 178n Les Mots et les choses Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth 112, 177n Fowler, Bridget 147, 180n Fullbrook, Kate 178n Freud, Sigmund 4, 111, , 140, 165, 167, 170, 171, 178n Beyond the Pleasure Principle 111 Family Romances 167, 170 Medusa s Head 118 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 171 Wolf Man, the Gatens, Moira 17 gender as performance 16 Giddens, Anthony 150, 154, 155, 180n Gill, Eric 94, 177n Glendinning, Victoria 173n Goldstein, Rebecca 6 Grosz, Elizabeth 16, 17, 18, 19, 48, 49, 50, 173n, 175n haecceity 71 2 Haffenden, John 173n, 180n Hamlet 86 Happy Days 92 3 Haste, Cate 9 10, 173n high and low culture 79 80, 85, 87, hom(m)o-sexual economy 118 homosociality 118 Hughes, John 175n hystera (womb) 4, 77, 78, 79 hysterical regimes of reading 4 6 illegitimate child, the 58, 59, 69 immanence 13, 14, 15, 30, 33, 34, 41 2 Immortality Ode Irigaray, Luce 12, 13, 14, 17, 21, 27 8, 42, 43 7, 49, 74, 77, 82, 90, 91, 124 5, 133, 142 3, 145, 173n An Ethics of Sexual Difference 12, 13 Sexes and Genealogies 142 Speculum of the Other Woman 12, 13, 74, 77, This Sex Which Is Not One 90

19 190 Index Jane Eyre 75, 163 Joannou, Maroula 1 2, 172n Kaplan, Sydney Janet 36, 174n Keats, John 135 Ode on a Grecian Urn 135 Kenyon, Olga 2 3, 172n, 173n, 178n, 181n Klein, Melanie 24, 38, 151 2, 174n Kristeva, Julia 17, 22, 24, 84, , 134, 136, 156, 157, 173n Black Sun 156 Powers of Horror 157 Stabat Mater 134, 136 Lacan, Jacques 122, 169 Lawrence, D. H. 125 Leavis, F. R. 179n Lehmann, Rosamond 10, 11, 16, 21, 24, 26 47, 139, 157, 173n The Ballad and the Source 34 8 Dusty Answer 26 31, 139 The Echoing Grove A Sea-Grape Tree 42 7 The Weather in the Streets 31 4 Levinas, Emmanuel 14, 46 Liddell, Robert 92 3, 177n Light, Alison 39 40, 174n Lury, Celia 173n Lyotard, Jean-François 4 majoritarian identities 66 7, 69 Mallarmé, Stéphane 126, 140, 179n Mary, Queen of Scots 133 masquerade, the 90 1 maternal genealogy 44, 45, 106 McDermid, Jane 172n Melusine myth metaphorics of fluids 19, 20 Millais, John Everett 86 Milton, John 123, 124, 126, 128, 139, 178n, 179n Comus 128, 139 Paradise Lost 123, 124, 179n Paradise Regained 122 mind-body problem 6, 101 2, 121, 122, 132, 138, 147 Moi, Toril 174n molar energies 48 molar formations 55, 56, 58, 61, 67 molecular energies 48 molecular formations 55, 67 mother daughter relationships 35, 43 5 Mulvey, Laura 80, 176n natality 20, 93, 94 6, 97 8, 101, Neoplatonism 124, 125 nightdream, the 148 obsessional regimes of reading 4 6 Oliver, Kelly 181n Paracelsus 144 Persephone 44, 120, 124, 133 Plato 12, 13, 77, 139 The Republic 12, 77 Timaeus 12, 13 Plath, Sylvia 124 The Bell Jar 124 popular culture , 162 pregnancy 77 8, 84, 93, 95 6, 134 Pride and Prejudice 79 Proserpine 23, 124, 133, 134, 135, 138, 145 Purvis, June 172n Radner, Hilary 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 121 2, 172n Radway, Janice 147, 180n Reading the Romance 147 Raine, Katherine 26 readerly text, the 5 romantic love 29 31, 43, 45 7, 69 71, 147, 150, 151, 154, 157, 158 Romanticism 153, 155 Rose, Jacqueline 86, 117, 176n, 178n Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 85 6 Rowbotham, Sheila 11, 173n Royle, Nicholas 175n

20 Index 191 Schmideberg, Melitta 24, 152, 180n Schoolman, Morton , 178n Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky 113, 118, 177n self-starvation 156 7, 171 sensible transcendental, the 42, 45, 82 Showalter, Elaine 172n Siddal, Lizzie 85 6 Simons, Judy 29, 31, 43, 174n, 178n Skinner, Jane 173n Sleeping Beauty 170 social constructionism 17 Spencer, Stanley 94 Spinoza, Baruch 49, 55 Stoneman, Patsy 75, 176n Stopes, Marie 9 Taylor, Elizabeth 10, 22, 24, 74 96, 110, 173n A Game of Hide and Seek 85 9 A Wreath of Roses 80 5 Palladian 75 80, 110 The Sleeping Beauty The Wedding Group 93 6 Tennyson, Alfred Lord 129 The Lady of Shalott 129, 143 Thatcher, Margaret 116, 117 Todd, Janet 173n, 177n, 179n, 180n transcendence 13, 14, 15, 29, 33, 34, 41 2 Tredell, Nicholas 178n, 179n, 180n Vico, Giambattista 145 Virgil 135, 179n Ward Jouve, Nicole 118, 178n Watts, Janet 42, 174n Webb, Janette 172n Whitford, Margaret 45, 74 5, 173n, 174n, 175n, 176n Williams, Raymond 149 Wilson, Elizabeth 1 Winter s Tale, The 134 Wollstonecraft, Mary 16 woman s novel, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 24 5, 80, 121 2, 148, Woolf, Virginia 26, 80, 82, 89, 110, 112, 174n, 176n A Room of One s Own 26 Mrs Dalloway 89, 112 The Waves 80, 82 The Years 110 Professions for Women 89 Wordsworth, William 137 writerly text, the 5 Wuthering Heights 75 Yates, Frances 131, 179n Yorkshire Ripper, the 118