Gráinne Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gráinne Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gráinne |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
Genteel Women
Guidebook publishing in the nineteenth century
John Murray pioneered the modern travel guidebook. This article draws on quantitative and qualitative sources from the Murray archive and Victorian print media to examine the commercial and critical fortunes of the world's first guidebook series. In addition to highlighting the role of competition, attitudes towards wealth making, the working culture of a family firm and the relationship between commercial and critical performance, this study mak…
A trustworthy interpreter between rulers and ruled
Servants of Empire
Journal Article Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family, by F.R.H. Du Boulay Get access Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family, by F.R.H. Du Boulay (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011; pp. 254. £25). Gráinne Goodwin Gráinne Goodwin Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 991–993, htt…
An Adamless Eden
This article focuses on the ‘outsider’ status of late-nineteenth-century women writers by exploring the experiences of Anglo-Indian novelist Flora Annie Steel and her responses to authorial sociability in fin-de-siècle London. Androcentric literary societies are viewed as influential sites which marginalised women writers, containing their incursion into masculine clubland and denying them access to some of the symbolic and practical benefits of …
Guidebook publishing in the nineteenth century
John Murray pioneered the modern travel guidebook. This article draws on quantitative and qualitative sources from the Murray archive and Victorian print media to examine the commercial and critical fortunes of the world's first guidebook series. In addition to highlighting the role of competition, attitudes towards wealth making, the working culture of a family firm and the relationship between commercial and critical performance, this study mak…
A trustworthy interpreter between rulers and ruled
Servants of Empire
Journal Article Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family, by F.R.H. Du Boulay Get access Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family, by F.R.H. Du Boulay (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011; pp. 254. £25). Gráinne Goodwin Gráinne Goodwin Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 991–993, htt…
An Adamless Eden
This article focuses on the ‘outsider’ status of late-nineteenth-century women writers by exploring the experiences of Anglo-Indian novelist Flora Annie Steel and her responses to authorial sociability in fin-de-siècle London. Androcentric literary societies are viewed as influential sites which marginalised women writers, containing their incursion into masculine clubland and denying them access to some of the symbolic and practical benefits of …
Genteel Women
Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
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