just a list of books i read for the many phd applications i wrote! i just want to keep a record of it somewhere bc i had different frames & ideas for it, so this is so i wont forget what i read when it was going thru different iterations. those i asterisked werent read all the way through:
*the passion projects, melanie micir (2019)
the fury archives, jill richards (2020)
wayward lives,beautiful experiments, saidiya hartman (2019)
the five, hallie rubenhold (2019)
*the new woman, sally ledger (1997)
*concieved in modernism, aimee armande wilson (2015) (i read some of the phd version of this because i couldnt access the book)
rebel crossings, sheila rowbotham (2016)
*the outside thing, hannah roche (2019)
wisps of violence, eileen sypher (1993)
dreamers of a new day, sheila rowbotham (2010)
i also read some of the phd thesis of sarah emily blewitt, hidden mothers and poetic pregnancy in womenās writing (1818-present day) (2015)
& a little of helen charman's phd thesis, george eliot's generative economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894 (2019) (definitely going to go back to this when i've read all of eliot's work that's mentioned in it!)
as well as the article "in the centre of a circleā: olive mooreās spleen and gestational immigration by erin m. kingsley (2018)
& the article ' what does a socialist woman do?' birth control and the body politic in naomi mitchisonās we have been warned by mara dougall (2021)
attainment, edith ellis (1909)
lolly willowes, sylvia townsend warner (1926)
mr fortunes maggot, sylvia townsend warner (1927)
the true heart, sylvia townsend warner (1929)
*summer will show, (1936)
the quarry wood, nan shepherd (1928)
the tree of heaven, may sinclair (1917)
passing, nella larsen (1929)
quicksand, nella larsen (1928)
the return of the soldier, rebecca west (1918)
jacob's room, virginia woolf (1922)
madame bovary, gustave flaubert translated by eleanor marx (1857/1885-6)
all passion spent, vita sackville-west (1931)
reuben sachs, amy levy (1888)
ruth, elizabeth gaskell (1853)
middlemarch, george eliot (1871)
money, victoria benedictsson, translated by sarah death (1885/2011)