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Parkin-Gounelas  \n# FICTIONS OF THE FEMALE SELF\n\n# Fictions of theFemale Self\n\nCharlotte Bronte,Olive Schreiner,Katherine Mansfield  \nRuth Parkin-Gounelas  \n◎Ruth Parkin-Gounelas 1991  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991978-0-333-52315-5  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written permission or in accordance withthe provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,33-4 Alfred Place,London WCiE 7DP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation tothis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst published 1991  \nPublished by  \nMACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTDHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand LondonCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nParkin-Gounelas,Ruth  \nFictions of the female self:Charlotte Bronte,Olive Schreiner,Katherine Mansfield.  \n1.English literature.Women writers-Critical studies  \nI.Title  \n820.99287  \nISBN 978-0-230-37825-4(eBook)  \nISBN 978-1-349-38953-7DOI 10.1057/9780230378254  \nTo my parents  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements  \n1X  \nIntroduction  \n工  \n1 Charlotte Bronte:The Quick of Her Nature  \n31  \n2 Charlotte Bronte and the Imagination:A Secretand Sworn Allegiance  \n53  \n3 Olive Schreiner:The 'Woman of Genius'  \n77  \n99  \n4 Olive Schreiner's Organic Art  \n5 Katherine Mansfield:The Art ofSelf-Development121  \n6 Katherine Mansfield:Far,Far Nearer  \n143  \nEpilogue  \n161  \nNotes and References165  \nSecondary Sources:A Select List187Index193  \nvii  \nAcknowledgements   \nWork on this project was sponsored by research grantsfrom the American College of Greece and The BritishCouncil.I would also like to thank the staff of the follow-ing libraries,where I conducted most of my research:theFisher Library,University of Sydney,the Alexander Turn-bull Library,Wellington,and the Bodleian Library,Oxford.  \nAcknowledgement is due to three journals that allowedme to use part of the following articles in revised form:'Charlotte Bronte and the Critics:Attitudes to the FemaleQualities in her Writing,AUMLA,62(November 1984);'Afterword'to Olive Schreiner,The Story of an African Farm(London,Virago,1989);'Charlotte Bronte's Villette and theTextuality of Selfhood’,Women's Studies International Forum,  \n14,1 (January 1991).  \nMy work has been enormously assisted by the emo-tional support and intellectual challenge of friends,col-leagues and students.In particular I want to thankVirginia Blain,Christine Alexander,Jina Politi,ElizabethSakellaridou,Victor Sage and Jane Parkin,all of whomread all or part of my manuscript at various stages andoffered valuable criticism.Above all,this book could nothave been written without the help of Dimitris Gounelas,who has offered the most exacting criticism as well asenthusiastic support throughout.","cbCaiksg8hECLQFu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiksg8hECLQFu","pdf",10125783,209,"English","# Introduction\n## Charlotte Bronte: The Quick of Her Nature\n## Charlotte Bronte and the Imagination: A Secret and Sworn Allegiance\n## Olive Schreiner: The 'Woman of Genius'\n## Olive Schreiner's Organic Art\n## Katherine Mansfield: The Art of Self-Development\n## Katherine Mansfield: Far, Far Nearer\n# Epilogue\n# Notes and References\n# Secondary Sources: A Select List\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"Which authors are analyzed in Fictions of the Female Self?\",\"answer\":\"The book focuses on Charlotte Brontë, Olive Schreiner, and Katherine Mansfield.\"},{\"question\":\"What topics does the book cover across its chapters?\",\"answer\":\"Chapters examine Brontë’s nature and imagination, Schreiner’s “woman of genius” and organic art, and Mansfield’s 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