Influence and Inheritance in Feminist English Studies

Marion Shaw, Loughborough University, UKLydia Fellgett, University of East Anglia, UKPrudence Chamberlain, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKNiall Gildea, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

• Introduction 1. Marion Shaw – 'Old Feminism, New Feminism' 2. Clara Jones – 'Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and the Problem of Inherited Wealth' 3. Lydia Fellgett – 'Amazons and Afterwards: Correspondence as Feminist Practice' 4. Emily J. Hogg – 'Progress and Feminist Literary Criticism: The 'New Eras' of Nadine Gordimer' 5. Prudence Chamberlain 'The Inheritance of Irony and Development of Flippancy' 6. Niall Gildea – 'Roger Scruton's Daughters: Feminism and Parasitism in the Idea of a University'