Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction, 1914-39 [Hardcover]

What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women's fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of inter-war women's writing and an examination of the links and rivalries between women writers themselves.Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 'An Age of Transition': Historical Context Theorising Female Rivalry Rewriting the Victorians: May Sinclair's Transitional Modernism The 'Other Woman': Rebecca West's 'Difference of View' A 'Shared Working Existence': Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby 'My Second Self': Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain The 'Recurring Dream' of Romance: Rosamond Lehmann Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography IndexDiana Wallace is Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan.