Article: Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 & British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning, But Laughing. .(Book Review)

Elizabeth Maslen. Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. viii, 248. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-72953-6.

Margaret D. Stetz. British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning, But Laughing. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xv, 151. $59.95. ISBN 0-7546-0390-3.

The ongoing project of rescuing neglected and out-of-print women writers from the oblivion of their non-canonical status continues even as it has taken a crucial critical turn in recent years. The pressure to affirm their seriousness and originality has receded somewhat, though the struggle to assure the place of these writers on English department ...

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