This pioneering study surveys 19th and 20th century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period imm

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David