Books by Whitney Standlee
Irish women writers entered the international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the pe... more Irish women writers entered the international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. This collection of new essays explores how Irish women, officially disenfranchised through much of that era, felt inclined and at liberty to exercise their political influence through the unofficial channels of their literary output.
By challenging exisiting and often narrowly-defined conceptions of what constitutes 'politics', this collection investigates Irish women writers' responses to, expressions of, and dialogue with contemporary politics. The political debates into which they entered included not only the debates surrounding nationalism and unionism, but also those concerning education, cosmopolitanism, language, Empire, economics, philanthropy, socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry, readership(s), the commercial market, and employment. The collection demonstrates how women from a variety of religious, social, and regional backgrounds - including Emily Lawless, L.T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, and the Ulster writers Ella Young, Beatrice Grimshaw and F.E. Crichton - used their work to advance their own private and public political concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an ever-growing readership. Close readings of individual texts are framed throughout by new archival research and detailed historical contextualisation.
Offering fresh critical perspectives by internationally renowned scholars including James H. Murphy, Margaret Kelleher, Patrick Maume, Eve Patten, and Heidi Hansson, 'Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922' is an innovative and essential contribution to the study of Irish literature as well as women's writing at the turn of the twentieth century. It includes a foreword by Lia Mills, author of the critically acclaimed novel 'Fallen'.
CONTENTS
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword by Lia Mills
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee
1. Works, righteousness, philanthropy and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick Maume
2. 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland - James H. Murphy
3. Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson
4. Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee
5. 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane Mahony and Eve Patten
6. Women, ambition and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani
7. 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher
8. 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade - Anna Pilz
9. 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson
10. 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak
11. 'The Red Sunrise': gender, violence and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat
12. Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington
Bibliography
Index
Pilz, Anna and Whitney Standlee (eds), Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 1-16.
Advancing the Cause of Liberty will be a volume of essays concerned with the nexus of the literar... more Advancing the Cause of Liberty will be a volume of essays concerned with the nexus of the literary and the political in Irish women's writing from the passing of the Intermediate Education Act in 1878 to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The volume will include chapters by Ciaran O'Neill, Jane Mahony and Eve Patten, James H. Murphy, Heidi Hansson, Margaret Kelleher, Kieron Winterson, Aurelia Annat, Naomi Doak and Lauren Arrington on writers including L. T. Meade, May Laffan, George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Turston, Rosa Mulholland, Beatrice Grimshaw, Emily Lawless, Lady Gregory, Ella Young, F. E. Crichton, Constance Markievicz, Katharine Tynan, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. In bringing together a range of international experts on specific Irish women writers who engage in diverse ways with the political debates of their time, this collection will challenge existing renditions of women’s political involvement which have overwhelmingly tended to privilege those women writers with nationalist, revivalist and suffragist agendas, and have thereby occluded other voices and opinions from women’s cultural and literary histories of the period. The book will, as such, reveal a variety of counter-narratives not only to men’s and/or mainstream British literary texts, but to the political stances that have heretofore been prioritised in academic studies of Irish literature and Irish history of the era.
Reviews of Power To Observe (2015) by Whitney Standlee
Reviews of Irish Women's Writing 1878-1922 (2016) by Whitney Standlee
Talks by Whitney Standlee
Participatory Talk on W. B. Yeats and Belief, Ledbury Poetry Festival (7 July 2015)
Contributions to Edited Collections by Whitney Standlee
Emily Lawless's 1886 novel Hurrish was among the most vilified texts of the immediate post-Land W... more Emily Lawless's 1886 novel Hurrish was among the most vilified texts of the immediate post-Land War era. Among its detractors were Katharine Tynan, W. B. Yeats, Father Matthew Russell and a host of Irish newspapers with nationalist agendas. In this chapter, I argue that its reception among pro-tenant Irish readers was coloured by foreknowledge of the recent history of Lawless's immediate family: her brother, Valentine, was the fourth Lord Cloncurry and in his capacity as a landowner was not only enmeshed in the agrarian struggles but was one of the most notorious evicting landlords of the Land War period. This chapter argues that responses to the novel were informed by a climate in which liminal positions on the Irish question such as Lawless's were devalued, and in which the types of conciliatory messages she conveys in the novel, which placed blame and praise on both sides of the conflicts which divided Irish and English thought and opinion, were unacceptable.
Articles by Whitney Standlee
Irish Studies Review, 2010
George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne, 1859–1945), from Co. Laois, was the New Woman author most c... more George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne, 1859–1945), from Co. Laois, was the New Woman author most closely associated with the Decadent movement. As such, she was also the New Woman writer most profoundly affected by the downfall of Oscar Wilde. After the Wilde trials of 1895, Egerton's connection to Decadence and New Womanhood would make her work anathema to much of the British public. This essay will argue that ongoing tendencies to situate her texts solely within the New Woman categorisation and an English cultural location have had the detrimental effect of obscuring their importance to a specifically Irish literary tradition. By examining Egerton's 1898 novel The Wheel of God, focusing on its status as an Irish Künstlerroman written from a position of exile, and drawing comparisons between it and the works of James Joyce, this essay will seek to redress this imbalance.
'George Egerton, James Joyce and the Irish Künstlerroman', Irish Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 4 (November 2010), pp. 439-452.
Enhancing Assessment Literacy
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Book Reviews by Whitney Standlee
‘Review. London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity by Tony Murray’
ABEI Journal of Irish Studies, Available Online at: http://www.abei.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=4, Nov 2012
Calls for Papers by Whitney Standlee
The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into b... more The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into both the public sphere and public consciousness. This development was not accidental but was instead fostered by a variety of networks and collaborations that connected Irish women to one another across space and time. Katharine Tynan and Dora Sigerson, for instance, hosted literary gatherings at their family homes that facilitated wider networks of influence, while collaborative writing efforts forged by Irish women during the period stretched from the works of Somerville and Ross through to the transnational publishing efforts of the Ladies' Land League and into educational and journalistic endeavours in which Irish women played central roles. These included the foremost Irish literary periodical of the day, The Irish Monthly, in which women writers featured regularly, and the Irish Fireside Club, whose central 'Uncle Remus' role was fulfilled by two Irish women writers (Rose Kavanagh and Hester Sigerson). Meanwhile, the efforts of women editors including L. T. Meade, whose London-based periodical Atalanta promoted Irish authors abroad, and family-based connections from the widely known (Constance and Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth) to the more obscure (M. E. Francis, Agnes Castle and Margaret Blundell) were central to Irish women's creativity and innovation. With close attention to both individual collaborations and wider networks, the symposium will direct attention to how women writers endeavoured to tell, share and publish their stories. Recognizing the need for research in the field of Irish women's writing that moves beyond the single-author approach, we are particularly interested in work that considers new critical perspectives on women writers' creative innovations through collaboration across genres and media and their personal networks and strategies to establish themselves as writers within a rich web of personal connections alongside institutional and infrastructural possibilities, both at home and in transnational contexts. This symposium will feed into a double issue of English Studies. The Graphic (12 November 1881). Private Collection.
Tid'apa'? British Women on the Home Front in Malaya and Singapore, 1939-42 Bridget Deane Universi... more Tid'apa'? British Women on the Home Front in Malaya and Singapore, 1939-42 Bridget Deane University of West of England [email protected] "There was only temporary relief from tiredness"-Women's embodied memories of work during the 2nd Word War in Finland We have to do everything that strong and loving mothers are able to do for the nation!" Protection of women and their children in wartime Hungary
CFPs by Whitney Standlee
The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into b... more The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into both the public sphere and public consciousness. This development was not accidental but was instead fostered by a variety of networks and collaborations that connected Irish women to one another across space and time. Katharine Tynan and Dora Sigerson, for instance, hosted literary gatherings at their family homes that facilitated wider networks of influence, while collaborative writing efforts forged by Irish women during the period stretched from the works of Somerville and Ross through to the transnational publishing efforts of the Ladies' Land League and into educational and journalistic endeavours in which Irish women played central roles. These included the foremost Irish literary periodical of the day, The Irish Monthly, in which women writers featured regularly, and the Irish Fireside Club, whose central 'Uncle Remus' role was fulfilled by two Irish women writers (Rose Kavanagh and Hester Sigerson). Meanwhile, the efforts of women editors including L. T. Meade, whose London-based periodical Atalanta promoted Irish authors abroad, and family-based connections from the widely known (Constance and Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth) to the more obscure (M. E. Francis, Agnes Castle and Margaret Blundell) were central to Irish women's creativity and innovation. With close attention to both individual collaborations and wider networks, the symposium will direct attention to how women writers endeavoured to tell, share and publish their stories. Recognizing the need for research in the field of Irish women's writing that moves beyond the single-author approach, we are particularly interested in work that considers new critical perspectives on women writers' creative innovations through collaboration across genres and media and their personal networks and strategies to establish themselves as writers within a rich web of personal connections alongside institutional and infrastructural possibilities, both at home and in transnational contexts. This symposium will feed into a double issue of English Studies.
Papers by Whitney Standlee
Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940
English Studies
Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Specia... more Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. This introductory essay sets the scene for the discussions and investigations that follow: we theorise the importance of collaboration and networks for understanding Irish women's writing and publishing, and highlight how contributors draw on extensive archival research that enables the tracing of the intersecting nodes, webs, and relationships between collaborations and networks. The Special Issue platforms the study of Irish women within collaborative sibling, spousal and other partnerships and within the context of movements, organisations, and networks. Our co-authored introduction, a product of our own feminist collaborative approach developed during the project, asserts that as the process of recovery of Irish women's writing continues, the collaborative and networked aspects of women's cultural productions become more central and significant. Their retrieval demands a suite of methodologies alongside a collective approach that pools resources, insights, and knowledge networks.
1 The ‘wire-puller’: L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of the Short Story
The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950, Mar 16, 2021
The ‘Personal Element’ and Emily Lawless’s Hurrish (1886)
Girls with ‘go’: female homosociality in L. T. Meade’s schoolgirl novels
Irish Women'S Writing, 1878-1922, 2016
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By challenging exisiting and often narrowly-defined conceptions of what constitutes 'politics', this collection investigates Irish women writers' responses to, expressions of, and dialogue with contemporary politics. The political debates into which they entered included not only the debates surrounding nationalism and unionism, but also those concerning education, cosmopolitanism, language, Empire, economics, philanthropy, socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry, readership(s), the commercial market, and employment. The collection demonstrates how women from a variety of religious, social, and regional backgrounds - including Emily Lawless, L.T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, and the Ulster writers Ella Young, Beatrice Grimshaw and F.E. Crichton - used their work to advance their own private and public political concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an ever-growing readership. Close readings of individual texts are framed throughout by new archival research and detailed historical contextualisation.
Offering fresh critical perspectives by internationally renowned scholars including James H. Murphy, Margaret Kelleher, Patrick Maume, Eve Patten, and Heidi Hansson, 'Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922' is an innovative and essential contribution to the study of Irish literature as well as women's writing at the turn of the twentieth century. It includes a foreword by Lia Mills, author of the critically acclaimed novel 'Fallen'.
CONTENTS
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword by Lia Mills
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee
1. Works, righteousness, philanthropy and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick Maume
2. 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland - James H. Murphy
3. Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson
4. Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee
5. 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane Mahony and Eve Patten
6. Women, ambition and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani
7. 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher
8. 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade - Anna Pilz
9. 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson
10. 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak
11. 'The Red Sunrise': gender, violence and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat
12. Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington
Bibliography
Index
Reviews of Power To Observe (2015) by Whitney Standlee
Reviews of Irish Women's Writing 1878-1922 (2016) by Whitney Standlee
Talks by Whitney Standlee
Contributions to Edited Collections by Whitney Standlee
Articles by Whitney Standlee
Book Reviews by Whitney Standlee
Calls for Papers by Whitney Standlee
CFPs by Whitney Standlee
Papers by Whitney Standlee
By challenging exisiting and often narrowly-defined conceptions of what constitutes 'politics', this collection investigates Irish women writers' responses to, expressions of, and dialogue with contemporary politics. The political debates into which they entered included not only the debates surrounding nationalism and unionism, but also those concerning education, cosmopolitanism, language, Empire, economics, philanthropy, socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry, readership(s), the commercial market, and employment. The collection demonstrates how women from a variety of religious, social, and regional backgrounds - including Emily Lawless, L.T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, and the Ulster writers Ella Young, Beatrice Grimshaw and F.E. Crichton - used their work to advance their own private and public political concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an ever-growing readership. Close readings of individual texts are framed throughout by new archival research and detailed historical contextualisation.
Offering fresh critical perspectives by internationally renowned scholars including James H. Murphy, Margaret Kelleher, Patrick Maume, Eve Patten, and Heidi Hansson, 'Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922' is an innovative and essential contribution to the study of Irish literature as well as women's writing at the turn of the twentieth century. It includes a foreword by Lia Mills, author of the critically acclaimed novel 'Fallen'.
CONTENTS
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword by Lia Mills
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee
1. Works, righteousness, philanthropy and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick Maume
2. 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland - James H. Murphy
3. Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson
4. Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee
5. 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane Mahony and Eve Patten
6. Women, ambition and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani
7. 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher
8. 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade - Anna Pilz
9. 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson
10. 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak
11. 'The Red Sunrise': gender, violence and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat
12. Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington
Bibliography
Index