Full name: A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39

Author: Nicola Beauman Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781903155684 1903155681

A Very Great Profession, first published in 1983, looks at women like Katharine in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day ("Katharine, thus, was a member of a very great profession which has, as yet, no title and very little recognition... She lived at home") and Laura, the heroine of Brief Encounter, women whose lives and habits were wonderfully recorded in the fiction of the time. Drawing on the novels to illuminate themes such as domestic life, romantic love, sex, psychoanalysis, the Great War and 'surplus' women, A Very Great Profession uses the work of numerous women writers to present a portrait, though their fiction, of middle-class Englishwomen in the period between the wars. Similar books: The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins Code Complete by Steve McConnell Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins Firefly by Joss Whedon Making Faces by Kevyn Aucoin The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe Refactoring by Martin Fowler Effective Java by Joshua Bloch Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Shrinkage by Bryan Bishop The Happy Medium by Kim Russo Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice The Absent Superpower by Peter Zeihan Lone Rider by Elspeth Beard Permaculture by Bill Mollison JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford