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Article: Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A Bio-Biographical Critical Sourcebook.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2000
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Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. by ELKE P. FREDERIKSEN and ELIZABETH G. AMETSBICHLER. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1998. xxxiii + 561 pp. 75.95 [pounds sterling].
Elke Frederiksen's and Elizabeth Ametsbichler's bibliographical sourcebook is the first of its kind in English. Their primary goal in putting together the volume was, they say, 'to make more extensive information on German-speaking women authors available to an English-speaking audience' (p. xiii), but they are also pursuing another important aim: to open out the field of research in women's literary studies, and to persuade those of us who still ...