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Article: Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society, 1879-1922.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2006
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Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1879-1922. By LISBET KICKHAM. (Lund Studies in English) Lund: Almqvist & Wiksell for Lund University, Dept of English. 2004. 252 pp. SEK 133. ISBN 91-974023-5-4.
Lisbet Kickham's book offers a broadly thematic study of largely neglected Irish female novelists during the period 1879-1922, from the founding of the Land League to the foundation of the Free State. Her starting-point is the often-cited contemporary view that, in terms of fiction, as distinct from poetry and drama, the Revival was relatively weak. To Ernest Boyd's 1916 statement in Ireland's Literary Renaissance that '[of] novelists in the proper sense of ...