The Single Woman, the City, and the Country
This chapter tracks the single woman’s experience of modernity in urban and rural spaces. It explores how urban and rural landscapes are used—both geographically and metaphorically—to evoke cultural anxiety concerning the single woman in Dorothy Richardso
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Emma Sterry
The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s
Emma Sterry Independent Scholar Cardiff, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-40828-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40829-3
ISBN 978-3-319-40829-3 (eBook)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing this book has been a long journey. It began during the days of my doctoral studies, when I decided to write a thesis about the single woman in women’s interwar fiction. Much of the groundwork for the research and thinking that informed this book took place back then. So my first thanks should really go to Professor Faye Hammill, who tirelessly supported and encouraged me during my PhD, and provided her ever-useful suggestions in the early stages of developing this book. I would also like to thank Dr. Heather Worthington, Dr. Eleanor Bell, Dr. Sarah Edwards, and Professor Nicola Humble for their helpful feedback on my thesis in its various stages. Transforming my thesis into something quite different has consisted of long hours sat in a room, writing, writing, writing. It has also involved a fair few hours of additional research. As an independent scholar, the process of writing this book has been challenging, but immensely rewarding. So thank you to the editorial team at Palgrave Macmillan for taking this project on, and supporting me through to its completion. Thanks also to my anonymous peer reviewer, for all your helpful comments. Portions of Chapter 3
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