History of Central European Women's Writing

CELIA HAWKESWORTH teaches Serbian and Croatian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Recently she has published several articles on women's writing in the Yugoslav lands, and completed a monograph Voices in the Shadows: Women's Writing in Serbia and Bosnia.

• Notes on the Contributors General Introduction PART I: WOMEN'S WRITING IN CENTRAL EUROPE BEFORE 1800 Introduction Women Readers and Writers in Medieval and Early Modern Bohemia; A.Thomas Polish Women Authors: From the Middle Ages until 1800; U.Phillips Women's Writing in Hungary before 1800; G.Cushing Women in Croatian Literary Culture, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries PART II: WOMEN'S WRITING IN CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Introduction Czech Women Writers from the National Revival to the Fin de Siècle; D.Moldanová Polish Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century; U.Phillips & G.Borkowska Hungarian Women Writers, 1790-1900; A.Fábri Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century Croatia; D.Zecevic PART III: WOMEN'S WRITING IN CENTRAL EUROPE, 1900-1945 Introduction Czech Women Writers, 1890s-1948; R.Pynsent The Feminization of Culture: Polish Women's Literature, 1900-1945; G.Borkowska Hungarian Women Writers, 1900-1945; A.Fábri Croatian Women Writers from the 'Moderna' to the Second World War; D.Detoni-Dujmic PART IV: WOMEN'S WRITING IN CENTRAL EUROPE, 1945-1995 Introduction Czech Women' Writers After 1945; V.Ambroz Women Writers in Polish Literature, 1945-1995; M.Czerminska Hungarian Women's Writing, 1945-1995; A.Peto Croatian Women Writers since 1945; C.Hawkesworth Slovak Women's Writing, 1843-1995; D.Krocanová, L.Cuzy & A.Bokniková Women Writers in Slovene Literature, 1840s to 1990; N.Kovic Bibliography Index

'A History of Central European Women's Writing represents an intellectual event of considerable magnitude.' - Halina Filipowicz, Slavic Review