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Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Sanders, Dr. or Prof. Lise Shapiro (Hampshire College, USA)
Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Sanders, Dr. or Prof. Lise Shapiro (Hampshire College, USA)
A study of working women’s experience of modernity as revealed through the popular romance in early 20th-century Britain, with a focus on girls’ and women’s magazines, bestselling novels by Elinor Glyn and E. M. Hull and their circulation in silent film culture, and women’s writings on sexual and political agency.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | October 1, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9798765141595 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 503 g |