Reviews for The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730

The average rating for The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-05-22 00:00:00 Peter Speerin A pity Goodreads doesn't do half stars. Because this review is for 4 1/2 stars. Arranged chronologically, I didn't quite take to some two or three tales; the first one, by Aphra Behn, I didn't get at all (it was too archaic for this dense reader), ditto with The Wish House by Kipling, some of whose short stories I hold dear. Add to this Elizabeth Bowen's A Love Story--what was that all about? In the hope that I may still be moved by some of the engaging to very powerful stories in this collection, below is my list of future recommended re-readings to myself: - The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope - To Esther by Anne Ritchie (my first time to come across this lady writer, who intrigues me, as her plot and prose sound like Maugham's) - Olive's Lover by C.C.K. Gonner - Miss Winchelsea's Heart by H.G. Wells - A Long-Ago Affair by John Galsworthy (these days, this delightful encounter would be filed under flash fiction) - Episode by W. Somerset Maugham (having already devoured so many of his short, delectable treats, this one included, I can imagine the difficulty John Sutherland had in choosing only one Maugham love story to share here) - Fifty Pounds by A.E. Coppard - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf (my favorite from this selection) - Love and Money by Phyllis Bentley - Blind Love by V.S. Pritchett - The Blue Film by Graham Greene (along with a handful of other stories, Sawi introduced this piece of flash fiction to me some summers ago; a summer or two later, I would discover Graham Greene's masterful and pointed wit on my own) - An English Unofficial Rose by Paul Theroux - A Small Spade by Adam Mars-Jones (the longest story here, this one's almost a novella)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-07 00:00:00 James Crosby Certainly not The Oxford Book of Requited English Love Stories.