Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928 - 1968

Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, she analyzes how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.