Nina Auerbach
This collection of essays (written 1967-83) is of interest because it reveals the development of a feminist criticism and the growing assuranceand daringof an accomplished scholar. The subjects include Jane Austen, Alice in Wonderland, Dickens, the Brownings, and female traditions in George Eliot, the Brontes, and Dorothy Sayers. Auerbach's essays typically move through and around a literary text into the realms of cultural myth; the most recent piece, on the actress Ellen Terry, interprets a life rather than a book and explores the expression, in a public persona, of creativity and cultural convention.
Nonfiction
Romantic Imprisonment: Women And Other Glorified Outcasts