Ackland, Valentine 24, 26, 44–45, 78, 302
‘Country Dealings’ (column) 45
‘The Lonely Woman’ 270
‘What must we do if we cannot do this?’ 78
Whether a Dove or a Seagull (with Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1933) 24, 78, 268
Acumen 170, 285
Adams, Anna 87, 97, 102, 302
‘Epistle to the man who sleeps in Sherwood Street’ 185
‘For the six children of Dr Goebbels’ 184, 286
Green Resistance (1996) 185, 194, 286, 287
‘Intensive Care: In the Cardiac Unit’ 185
‘Prampushers’ 187, 287
Adcock, Fleur 5, 87, 95, 96, 97, 102, 104, 137, 139, 149, 172, 174, 183, 197, 212, 244, 303
Below Loughrigg (1979) 104, 274
‘Fleur Adcock’ (Bloodaxe Contemporary Women Poets ed. Couzyn, 1985) 289
‘Fleur Adcock’ (Poets Talking ed. Wilmer, 1994) 285
Hotspur (1986) 174
Looking Back (1997) 194
‘Paths’ 274
Poems 1960–2000 (2000) 194, 274, 298
‘Roles’ 298
‘Rural Blitz’ 274
The Faber Book of 20th-Century Women’s Poetry (ed., 1987) 39, 149, 259, 262, 281
Time Zones (1991) 298
‘Women as poets’ 102–03, 273
Agbabi, Patience 171, 181, 205, 208, 226, 303
‘It’s Better Post- than Pre-’ 185, 188
R. A. W. (1985) 287, 291
‘Rappin it Up’ 208, 291
‘Sentences’ 189, 287
‘Transformatrix’ 293
Transformatrix (2000) 194, 226, 293
‘UFO WOMAN (PRONOUNCED OOFOE)’ 226, 293
Ahkmahtova, Anna 244
Allnutt, Gillian 87, 102, 139, 151, 303
‘East Anglian Progenitor’ 103, 274
‘Quote Feminist Unquote Poetry’ 171, 280, 282
‘The Talking Princess’ 152
Allott, Kenneth 86, 134, 278
Alvarez, Al 86, 96, 129, 138, 270, 277, 279
Alvi, Moniza 181–82, 194, 203, 204–05, 221, 232, 303
A Bowl of Warm Air (1996), 286, 290
‘Blood’ 203, 290
Carrying My Wife (2000) 194, 221, 248, 286, 290, 292, 295
‘Hindi Urdu Bol Chaal’ 204, 290
‘Map of India’ 181, 286
‘Missing’ 292
‘O Maharani’ 203, 290
‘The Country at My Shoulder’ 286
The Country at My Shoulder (1993) 203, 286, 290
‘The Double City’ 286
‘The Laughing Moon’ 203, 290
‘The Least International Shop in the World’, 290
‘The Sari’, 181–82, 204, 286, 290
‘The World Has A Passion’ 295
Amis, Kingsley 3, 94
androgyny 10, 27, 29, 32, 36, 38, 42
anthologies 8, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 44, 77, 83, 95, 101, 140, 171, 172, 193
culturally specific 172, 177
Imagist 15, 17
women-only, 36, 86, 102, 140
Aquarius Women 170, 287
Archer, Nuala 178, 303
Armstrong, Isobel 71, 73, 74, 268, 271
Arrowsmith, Pat 101, 102, 304
‘Escape’ (Nine Lives, 1990) 101, 273
Astley, Neil 171, 194–95, 288, 291, 292–93
Astor, Nancy 13
Austin, Annemarie 186, 234, 304
On the Border (1993) 296
‘Shape-Shifting’ 234, 296
‘She’ 187, 287
The Flaying of Marsyas (1995) 287
autobiography 37, 38, 39, 79, 109, 114
avant-garde, the 58, 66, 71, 255
Badeni, June 33, 261
Bagnold, Enid 22
Bakhtin, M. M 113, 116, 212, 213, 214, 218–19, 275, 291, 292
ballad 9, 22, 52, 56, 110, 245
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 126–27, 133
Bardwell, Leland 183
Barlow, Jane 12
Barnes, Djuna 78, 259
Barney, Natalie 78
Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth 2, 11
Barthes, Roland 232, 233, 295, 296
Bartlett, Elizabeth 4, 87, 96, 99, 102, 104, 137, 185, 188, 215–16, 304
A Lifetime of Dying (1979) 104
Appetites of Love (2001) 194
‘Appointment’ 215, 292
‘Elizabeth Bartlett’ (Contemporary Poets, ed. Chevalier, 1993) 274
Look, No Face (1991) 215
‘Mixed Infants’ 287
‘Neurosis’ 99
Strange Territory (1983) 215
Two Women Dancing New and Selected Poems (ed. Rumens, 1995) 194, 287, 292
Barton, Joan 87, 304
Baym, Nina 136, 279
Beach, Sylvia 16, 66, 259
Bedford, Madeleine Ida (‘Munition Wages’) 47, 264
Beer, Gillian 294
Beer, Patricia 5, 87, 95, 97, 101, 102, 103, 105, 131, 134, 136, 186, 193, 304
‘Beatrice-Joanna’ 97, 272
Collected Poems (1988) 272, 273, 278
Driving West (1975) 102
‘Finding A Voice’ 272
‘Four Years After’ 97, 272
‘In A Country Museum’ 97, 272
‘In Conversation’ (with Clive Wilmer) 278
‘In Memory of Stevie Smith’ 124, 273, 276
Just Like the Resurrection (1967) 272, 278
New Poetry 2 (ed. with Crossley-Holland, 1976) 103, 274
‘Patricia Beer’ (Contemporary Poets ed. Riggs, 1991) 92
PEN New Poems 1975 103, 274
Poems (1979) 102
‘Summer Song for me and my Aunts’ 131, 278
The Estuary (1971) 100, 102, 273
The Loss of the Magyar (1959) 96
The Survivors (1963) 272
‘Vampire’ 97, 272
‘Witch’ 97, 272
Bell, Kathleen 268
Bell, Maud Anna (‘From a Trench’) 264
Bellerby, Frances 25, 87, 89, 96, 305
Bennett, Louise (‘Miss Lou’) 181, 205, 305
Jamaica Labrish (1966) 205
Bensen, Alice 19, 259
Bensley, Connie 189, 194, 248, 305
Central Reservations: New and Selected Poems (1990) 287
Choosing to be a Swan (1994) 189
‘Personal Column’ 189
‘Politesse’ 288
‘Single Parent’ 189
The Back and the Front of It (2000) 288
‘The Stable Relationship’ 287
Benson, Stella 22, 24, 305
Benton, Jill 44, 265, 269
Beresford, Anne 87, 97, 102, 305
Berger, John 231, 295
Bergson, Henri 68, 69
Bergvall, Caroline 193, 282, 306
Bernikow, Louise 1, 139
The World Split Open (1979) 1, 148–49, 257, 279, 281
Berry, James 205–06, 290
Bertram, Vicki 147–48, 255, 280
Bhatt, Sujata 181, 182, 183, 194, 197, 203, 204, 223, 230, 306
Augatora (2000) 293
Brunizem (1988) 198, 290, 294, 300
‘Counting Sheep White Blood Cells’ 294
‘Marie Curie to Her Husband’ 294
Monkey Shadows (1991) 294
Point No Point (1997) 288, 290, 300
‘Search for my Tongue’ 182, 205, 290
‘Shérdi’ 249, 300
‘The MultiCultural Poem’ 293
‘The One Who Goes Away’ 288
The Stinking Rose (1995) 288
‘Udaylee’ 188, 203, 204, 287, 290
Bielski, Alison 156, 283, 306
birth control 13
Bishop, Elizabeth 174, 192, 244
blank verse 3, 19, 56, 57
Blast 9, 66, 267
Bloodaxe Books 169, 172
Bloom, Valerie 102, 171, 181, 205, 225, 306
‘Language Barrier’ 225, 293
‘Show Dem’ 205, 290
Touch Mi Tell Mi (1983) 293
Bogan, Louise 71
Bolam, Robyn see Lomax, Marion
Boland, Eavan 6, 87, 97, 102, 105, 128, 130, 134, 135, 137, 139, 169, 176, 178, 179, 184, 188, 195, 202, 203, 208–11, 240, 244, 247, 257, 286, 297, 306
‘A Woman Painted on a Leaf’ 209
‘An Interview with Eavan Boland’ (with Jody Allen-Randolph) 209, 291
‘An Irish Childhood in England, 1951’ 209
‘Anna Liffey’ 202, 210, 289, 291
‘Anorexic’ 188, 287
Collected Poems (1995) 130, 194, 277, 287, 289, 291, 297
‘Fond Memory’ 209
‘Gods make their Own Importance’ 291
In A Time of Violence (1994) 178, 289
In Her Own Image (1980) 130
‘Letter to a Young Woman Poet’ 210, 291
‘Mastectomy’ 287
Night Feed (1982) 130, 137, 291
‘Nightfeed’ 178
Object Lessons (1995) 178, 255–56, 286, 301
‘Ode to Suburbia’ 130, 277
Selected Poems 1980–1990 (1991) 193
‘Suburban Woman’ 130, 277
‘The Domestic Interior’ 209–10
‘The Harbour’ 209, 291
The Journey (1986) 291, 297
‘The Journey’ 210, 291, 297
The Lost Land (1998) 291
‘The Muse Mother’ 210, 291
‘The Serinette Principle’ 298
The War Horse (1975) 130, 277
‘The Woman Poet: Her Dilemma’ 184, 286
‘The Woman, The Place, The Poet’ 291
‘The Wrong Way’ (Strong Words, 2000) 277
‘Tirade for the Lyric Muse’ 240, 241, 297
Borden, Mary 307
(‘The Song of the Mud’, The Forbidden Zone 1929), 51, 265
Bowes Lyon, Lilian 8, 24, 89, 307
Brackenbury, Alison 307
Bradley, Katherine (see also ‘Michael Field’) 30, 261
Brannigan, John 99, 273
Breen, Jennifer, 127, 277
Breeze, Jean ‘Binta’ 171, 181, 194, 205, 207–08, 225–26, 293, 307
‘Can A Dub Poet Be A Woman?’ 207–08, 291
‘Dis Lang Time Girl’ 225
‘Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman’s Poem)’ 207
‘The First Dance’ 225
Brereton, Frederick 259
Bristowe, Sybil (‘Over the Top’ ) 264
British Poetry Revival, the 88, 102, 156 (see also Mottram, Eric)
Brittain, Vera 15, 17, 24, 308
‘Lament for the Demobilised’ 24
‘Married Love’ 24, 260
Poems of the War and After (1934) 24, 260
Testament of Friendship: the Story of Winifred Holtby (1980) 264
Verses of a VAD (1918) 24
Britzolakis, Christina 129, 277
Brown, Eleanor 180
Browning, Robert 30, 261
Bryce, Colette 178
Bryher, Winifred 16, 259
Buck, Claire, 140, 143, 147–48, 149, 151, 273, 280, 282
Buck, Heather 308
Bunston, Anna 12
Butts, Mary 259
Byers, Margaret 97, 272
Caesar, Adrian 24, 260
Cambridge 13, 101, 153, 156, 158, 160, 164, 169, 285
Campbell, Nancy 22
Campbell, SiobhÁn 178
Cannan, May Wedderburn 17, 308
In War Time (1917) 17, 46
Cannon, Moya 178
Carnie, Ethel [Holdsworth] 4, 57, 308
‘A Marching Time’ 57
‘A Vision’ 57, 266
Songs of a Factory Girl (1911) 57
Voices of Womanhood (1914) 57, 266
‘Why?’ 266
Chamberlain, Brenda 308
Chambers, Harry 95, 170
Charm 267
Chatterjee, Debjani 182–83, 197, 204, 309
I Was That Woman (1989) 288
‘Primary Purpose’ 288
Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poetry (ed., 2000) 183, 286
‘To the English Language’ 182–83, 286
childbirth 82, 135–38, 136
childcare 13, 135, 136–38, 137
Chodorow, Nancy 138, 279
Cixous, Hélène 86, 162, 163, 203, 233, 276, 296
Claire, Paula 193
Clanchy, Kate 175–76, 194, 285, 309
Samarkand (1999) 287
‘The Personals’ 189, 287
Clark, Polly 194
Clarke, Gillian 5, 87, 102, 104, 136, 139, 180, 206, 244, 247, 290, 309
‘Border’ 206, 290
‘Cofiant’ 247, 299
Collected Poems (1997) 194, 290, 298
‘Gillian Clarke’ (A Calendar of Modern Poetry) 299
‘Gillian Clarke’ (Six Women Poets, 1992) 278
‘Letter From a Far Country’ 131–32
Letting in the Rumour (1989) 290, 298, 299
‘Overheard in County Sligo’ 243, 298
‘Siege’ 184
class 26, 27, 41, 43–57, 44, 54, 57, 86, 91, 103, 179, 214
Clifford, Ethel 22
Cluysenaar, Anne 87, 309
‘Natural History’ (Timeslips, 1997) 229–30, 294
Coats, Alice (‘The “Monstrous Regiment”’) 25, 260
Cole, G. D. H 263
Cole, Margaret Postgate 17, 44, 309
‘Praematuri’ 17
‘The Veteran’ 17
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth 12, 27, 30, 309
Fancy’s Guerdon (1897) 12
The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge (ed. Whistler, 1954) 12
‘The Other Side of the Mirror’ 30
The Poems of Mary Coleridge (1907) 12
Coles, Gladys Mary 87, 309
Collins, Merle 181, 205, 310
colloquialism 6, 9, 18, 24, 36, 37, 41, 42, 49, 71, 75, 76, 80, 212
confessional 80, 100, 149
Conquest, Robert 94, 96, 98
consciousness-raising 6, 139–52, 140, 141, 143
Cope, Wendy 87, 96, 243, 248, 310
‘A Nursery Rhyme’ 298
‘A Policeman’s Lot’ 298
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986) 185, 298
‘Poem Composed in Santa Barbara’ 298
Serious Concerns (1992) 186, 287, 298
Strugnell 244, 298
‘Tumps’ 186, 287
‘Waste Land Limericks’ 298
Copus, Julia 194, 310
‘Don’t Talk to me about Fate’ 189
‘In Defence of Adultery’ 189
‘The Back Seat of my Mother’s Car’ 188
‘The Marriage’ 188
Corbluth, Elsa 310
Cornford, Frances 8, 16, 19, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, 36, 87, 89, 96, 260, 261, 310
‘A Glimpse’ 36
‘A Peasant Woman’ 38, 262
‘Constant’ 38
Different Days (1928) 262
‘Lunchtime Talk at Foyle’s’ 261
‘Mother and Child Asleep’ 38
Mountains and Molehills (1934) 262
‘Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents’ 37, 262
On A Calm Shore (1960) 96
Poems from the Russian (1943) 258
Selected Poems of Frances Cornford (ed. Dowson, 1996) 262
‘She Warns Him’ 37, 262
‘The Scholar’ 36–37, 262
‘The Sick Queen’ 37–38, 262
‘Views and Recollections of a Sunday Poet’ 30, 261
Cosslett, Tess 135, 278
Couzyn, Jeni 87, 97, 101, 102, 104, 131, 137, 156, 183, 311
‘But At Heart You Are Frightened’ 273
‘House of Changes’ 104, 274
House of Changes (1978) 274
Selected Poems (2000) 194
‘Sylvia Plath’ 277
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets (ed., 1985) 172, 278, 285
‘The Dance’ 105, 274
‘The Spell’ 105, 274
Crawford, Elizabeth 263
Crawford, Robert 197, 288, 289
Creole 181, 205–06, 225, 226
Criterion, The 77
Cunard, Nancy 8, 16, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 45, 48, 58, 78, 85, 258, 269, 311
Black Man and White Ladyship (1931) 45, 263
‘In Provins’ 21
Negro: an anthology (ed., 1934) 45, 263
Outlaws (1921) 21
Parallax (1925) 21
Poems (Two) 1925 (1930) 21
Poems for France (1944) 45, 264
Poems of Nancy Cunard (ed. Lucas) 260
‘Simultaneous’ 21
Sublunary (1923) 21
‘The Refugees at Perpignan, Miss Cunard’s Appeal’ 265
‘To Eat Today’ 50, 265
Custance, Olive (Lady Alfred Douglas) 12
Cutlasses and Earrings (ed. Wandor and Roberts, 1977) 140–41, 142, 144, 280, 281
Daryush, Elizabeth 8, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, 40–41, 87, 311
‘Children of Wealth’ 41, 263
Collected Poems (ed. Davie, 1976) 102, 261
‘If your love prove’ 263
‘Off Duty’ 41, 263
Selected Poems (1935) 40
Selected Poems (1948) 40
Selected Poems: Verses I-VI (1972)
‘Still Life’ 40–41, 262
‘The woman I’d revere’ 41, 263
Verses: Fourth Book (1934) 40, 262
Verses: Sixth Book (1938) 263
‘Well, what of it? What if you are beautiful?’ 41
‘When your work’s done, banish it behind you’ 41
‘Woman, dweller in the heart’ 41, 263
‘You who are Blest’ 41
de Beauvoir, Simone 95, 132, 136, 278, 279
de Souza, Eunice 183
Dharker, Imtiaz 181, 182, 183, 194, 198, 201, 204, 312
‘Choice’ 286
I Speak for the Devil (2001) 289
‘Minority’ 286
‘No-Man’s Land’ 289
Postcards from god (1997) 182, 286
Purdah (1988) 182, 289
‘They’ll say, “She must be from another country”’ 289
dialect 6, 53, 111, 171, 179, 205
dialogic 21, 76, 109, 113, 116, 119, 176, 179, 192, 212, 212–26, 216, 219, 223
dialogue(s) 7, 22, 27, 34, 43, 48, 49, 69, 88, 100, 116, 171, 179, 187, 212, 220
Distaff Muse, The (ed. Bax and Stewart, 1949) 86, 87, 127, 270, 271
Dobell, Eva 25, 312
domesticity 6, 12, 13, 56, 103, 125–38, 219
Donovan, Katie 178, 188, 194, 312
‘Underneath Our Skirts’ 287
Watermelon Man (1993) 287
Dooley, Maura 238, 248, 312
Explaining Magnetism (1991) 294, 300
‘Fundoscopy’ 230, 294
Kissing a Bone (1996) 296
Making for Planet Alice (ed., 1997) 125, 192, 253, 276, 288, 301
‘Mansize’ 300
‘Mirror’ 247–48, 299
‘More than Twice the Speed of Sound’ 296
Sound Barrier (2002) 294, 296, 299, 300
Doolittle, Hilda see H. D.
Dorcey, Mary 312
Douglas, Lady Alfred see Olive Custance
Downie, Freda 87, 100, 102, 313
Collected Poems (1995) 194
Dowson, Jane 259, 260, 262, 263, 265
Doyle, Camilla 313
‘The General Shop’ (The General Shop and Other Poems, 1937) 8, 258
dramatic monologue 5, 7, 22, 27, 41, 47, 48, 49, 71, 75, 79, 80, 82, 83, 109, 155, 171, 176, 212–26, 213, 254
poems 43, 109, 179, 215
Dubé, Janet (‘it’ll take a long time’) 146
Duffy, Carol Ann 4, 6, 87, 139, 169, 175–76, 179, 185, 193, 195, 212, 214–15, 217–18, 218–19, 235–36, 244, 257, 313
‘A Clear Note’ 219, 292
‘Adultery’ 189
‘Away and See’ 191
‘Circe’ 236, 296
‘Comprehensive’ 214
‘Disgrace’ 189, 287
‘Dummy’ 291
‘Education for Leisure’ 185
‘Eurydice’ 292
Feminine Gospels (2002) 191
‘Head of English’ 191, 217, 292
‘The Laughter of Stafford Girls’ High’, 191, 288
‘Like Earning a Living’ 185
‘Litany’ 217
‘Little Red-Cap’ 195, 288
‘Lizzie, Six’ 219, 292
Mean Time (1993) 287, 288
‘Medusa’ 236, 296
‘Mrs Tilscher’s Class’ 191
‘Poet for our Times’ 170, 285
‘Prayer’ 186–87, 287
‘Psychopath’ 218–19, 292
‘Pygmalion’s Bride’ 235–36, 296
Salmon (2000) 194
Selected Poems (1994) 194, 285, 299
Selling Manhattan (1987) 291, 292
‘Standing Female Nude’ 213
Standing Female Nude (1985) 292
‘The Good Teachers’ 191
The Other Country (1990) 175, 285, 299
‘The Way My Mother Speaks’ 299
The World’s Wife (1999) 190, 195, 217–18, 235, 288, 292, 296
‘Thetis’ 235, 296
‘Translating the English, 1989’ 214
‘Warming Her Pearls’ 189
William and the ex-Prime Minister (1992) 185, 286
‘Yes, Officer’ 214, 291
Duffy, Maureen 87, 103, 273, 313
Dunhill, Christina (As Girls Could Boast, ed., 1994) 248, 299
Dunmore, Helen 187, 228, 294, 313
Out of the Blue (2001) 300
‘Patrick I’, 287
‘Second Marriages’ 189, 287
Short Days, Long Nights (1991) 287
‘The Country at My Shoulder’ 197, 288, 289
‘The Deserted Table’ 189, 287
The Raw Garden (1988) 300
‘Wild Strawberries’ 249, 300
Duran, Jane 175, 314
Earle, Jean 87, 102, 105, 173, 314
A Trial of Strength (1980) 274
‘Jugged Hare’ 247, 299
Selected Poems (1990) 274, 299
‘The Healing Woman–Of Her Gift’ 274
Egoist, The 9–10, 15, 16, 58, 80, 258
Eiffel Tower Group, the 9
Elfyn, Menna 180–81, 206, 314
Eliot 15, 16, 23, 31, 58, 82, 122, 156, 159, 180–81, 259
The Waste Land 90, 159
Evans, Christine 285, 314
experimental writing 16, 27, 41, 58, 63, 64, 65, 66, 85, 107, 109, 154, 160, 254
Fainlight, Ruth 87, 97, 102, 103, 136, 172, 183, 186, 193, 241, 258, 285, 314
‘A Sibyl’ 274
Another Full Moon (1976) 274
‘Disguise’ 106, 274
‘Domestical’ 131, 278
‘Ruth Fainlight’ (Bloodaxe Contemporary Women Poets, ed. Couzyn, 1985) 297
Selected Poems (1987) 102, 274
Sibyls and Others (1980) 105–06, 274, 278
The Region’s Violence (1973) 106, 274
‘Vertical’ 106, 274
fantasy 39, 61, 65, 109, 120, 121
Fanthorpe, U. A. 87, 102, 139, 185, 193, 215, 235, 243, 248, 315
A Watching Brief (1987) 292
Consequences (2000) 194
‘Only Here for the Bier’ 296
Selected Poems (1986) 296, 298
‘Seminar: Felicity and Mr Frost’ 298
Standing To (1982) 296
Voices Off (1984) 298
‘Washing Up’ 220, 292
Farjeon, Eleanor 18, 27, 46, 315
‘A Prayer’ 46, 264
Moonshine (1921) 264
Sonnets and Poems (1918) 18, 259
Feaver, Vicki 190, 194, 218, 222, 315
Close Relatives (1981) 187
‘Crab Apple Jelly’ 299
‘French Lesson’ 222, 293
‘Judith’ 190, 218
‘Lacrimae Hominis’ 222, 293
‘No More “Mrs Nice”’ (interview with Vicci Bentley) 288
‘The Handless Maiden’ 190, 218, 292
The Handless Maiden (1994) 292, 293, 299
‘The Singing Teacher’ 222, 293
‘Women’s Blood’ 220, 292
Feinstein, Elaine 87, 97, 102, 103, 104, 105, 129, 139, 172, 183, 193, 241, 244, 258, 285, 316
‘A Quiet War in Leicester’ 274
‘Amy Levy’ 298
‘Anniversary’ 274
‘Calliope in the Labour Ward’ 136, 279
City Music (1990) 297, 300
Collected Poems and Translations (2002) 183, 274, 279, 286, 297, 298, 300
Daylight (1997) 298
Gold (2000) 194
In a Green Eye (1966) 279
‘Mother Love’ 137, 279
‘Muse’ 297
‘New Sadness/Old City’ 274
The Magic Apple Tree (1971) 274
‘Urban Lyric’ 249–50, 300
Fell, Alison 87, 102, 140, 141, 142, 142–44, 144, 146, 180, 316
‘Butterfingers’ 143, 281
‘For Maria Burke’ 142, 146, 147, 151, 281
‘Girl’s Gifts’ 143, 281
‘Hysteria 1’ 281
Kisses For Mayakovsky (1984) 281
‘Sail Away’ 143, 281
‘The Victors October 18 1977’ 142
‘Women in the Cold War’ 142, 143, 281
female body 163, 182, 187–88
desire 78, 84, 188, 228, 233, 236, 248–49
experience 3, 6, 34, 38, 65, 93, 94, 97, 106, 143, 148, 172, 188, 190, 196, 228, 233, 254
identity 55, 71, 79, 88, 98, 119, 126, 143, 144, 145, 148, 162, 163, 212, 220, 226, 254
selfhood 88, 98, 241, 248, 251
sexuality, 65, 78, 236
subjectivity 60, 73, 151, 162, 163, 193, 244
feminism 9, 13, 24, 61, 88, 100, 101, 139–52, 151, 162, 169, 233, 244
feminist anthologies 140, 193
critics/criticism 86, 172, 233
ideology/ideals 44, 145, 147
literary initiatives 140, 151
poetry 100, 139, 146, 147
poets 131, 139–52, 145, 171
Field Day anthologies 177, 285
‘Field, Michael’ (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) 11, 12, 22, 26, 30–31, 316
Mystic Trees (1913) 12
Poems of Adoration (1912) 12
Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908) 12
Fisher, Janet 194, 316
Fitzgerald, Penelope 268
Fletcher, J. G 77, 268
folk songs 56, 110
Ford, Hugh, 21, 260, 263, 265, 267
Ford, S. Gertrude 12, 18, 47, 54–55, 317
‘A Fight to a Finish’ 47, 264
‘Houseless by Night – May 1911’ 54, 265
Lessons in Versecraft (1919) 18, 55
Little Books of Georgian Verse 18
Lyric Leaves (1912) 54, 265
Poems of War and Peace (1915) 47, 264
The England of My Dream and Other Poems (1928) 54
‘The Pageant of Women – June 17 1910’ 54
‘The Soldier’s Mother’ 264
‘The Tenth Armistice Day’ 47, 264
Forrest-Thomson, Veronica 6, 87, 107, 153, 156–59, 160, 161, 164, 317
‘An Impersonal Statement’ 158–59, 283
‘Anti-Phrasis’ 158, 283
‘Antiquities’ 158, 283
‘Clown (by Paul Klee)’ 158
Collected Poems and Translations (1990) 159, 283, 284
‘Contours – Homage to Cezanne’ 158
‘Cordelia: or, “A Poem Should not Mean but Be”’ 159, 284
‘Gemini’ 158, 283
‘Identi-Kit’ 158, 283
Identi-Kit (1967) 158
Language-Games (1971) 158
‘Note’ 158, 283
On the Periphery (1976) 156, 159
Poetic Artifice (1978) 156, 283
‘Sagittarius’ 158, 283
‘The Further-Off-From’ 156, 157–58, 283
‘The Garden of Proserpine’ 159, 284
‘The Hyphen’ 283
‘The Lady of Shalott: Ode’ 159, 284
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ 158, 283
France, Linda 215, 238, 242, 317
‘Acts of Love’ 190, 288
‘Dreaming True’ 237, 296
‘My Muse, The Whore’ 241, 297
‘New York Spring’ 189
Red (1992) 288, 296
‘Samantha’ 190, 288
‘Selling Yourself Short’ 292
Sixty Women Poets (ed., 1993) 110, 124, 173, 276, 287
Storyville (1997) 215, 241, 245, 292, 297, 299
‘The Eater of Wives’ 249, 300
The Gentleness of the Very Tall (1994) 300
‘The Nine Muses’ 241, 297
‘Weighing the Heart’ 245, 299
Fraser, G. S. 52, 157, 265, 283
Fraser, Olive 25, 100, 173, 317
free verse 3, 9, 15, 18, 19, 21, 38, 48, 55, 68, 70, 71, 80, 82
Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review (The New Freewoman) 9–10 (see alsoThe Egoist)
Freud, Sigmund 9, 59, 62, 71, 73, 79, 81, 115, 121, 127, 153, 193, 213, 232, 258, 295
Friedan, Betty 95, 128, 132, 277
Fuller, Cynthia 317
Fuller, Jean Overton 87, 97
Fyleman, Rose 22
Gallagher, Katherine 194
Garnett, David 78, 269
Garrett, Elizabeth 245–46, 317
A Two-Part Invention (1998) 246, 299
‘Alliance Française’ 246
‘Anatomy of Departure’ 246
‘Love’s Parallel’ 246, 299
‘Mother, Baby, Lover’ 187, 287
The Rule of Three (1991) 287
Garvin, Viola 318
Gavron, Hannah 95, 276, 277
gaze, the 3, 167, 231–32, 240, 247
gender-identification 2, 7, 80
roles 68, 85, 88
George, Glenda 102, 153, 156, 318
Georgian Poetry (ed. Marsh, 1912–22) 15, 19, 31, 259, 261
Gershon, Karen 87, 103, 318
‘A Jew’s Calendar’ 50, 264
The Relentless Year (1959) 96
Gibbons, Stella 22, 24, 82–83, 260, 269, 318
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar 270
Gilfillan, Caroline (‘Blood that we are taught to hate’) 148
Gillies, Valerie 318
Gillilan, Pamela 173, 194, 318
All-Steel Traveller: New and Selected Poems (1994) 299
‘Semi-detached’ 299
Glendinning, Victoria 262, 266
Goodison, Lorna 181
Gore-Booth, Eva 16–17, 30, 44, 263, 319
Complete Poems (1929) 16
Selected Poems (ed. Roper, 1933) 16–17, 263
The Shepherd of Eternity and Other Poems (1925) 263
Gough, Christina (‘Holloway Jail, 28th April, 1912’) 56
Gramich, Katie 207, 290
Graves, Ida Affleck 319
Greenlaw, Lavinia 190, 192, 195, 227, 229, 231, 238, 295, 319
A World Where News Travelled Slowly (1997) 192, 295
‘Galileo’s Wife’ 230, 294
‘Hurting Small Animals’ 218, 292
‘Interior With Extension Cord’ (Strong Words, 2000) 294
interview with Tim Kendall, Thumbscrew 8 (1997) 288
‘Millefiori’ 231, 295
Night Photograph (1993) 192, 294
‘Science for Poets’ 228–29, 294
‘The Gift of Life’ 230, 294
Greer, Germaine 126, 253, 254, 301
Gregson, Ian 159, 190, 213, 214–15, 220, 283, 288, 291, 292, 294
Griffiths, Jane 194
Grigson, Geoffrey 23, 278
Groarke, Vona 178
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) 4, 8, 22, 27, 46, 58, 59–60, 62, 69, 70, 78, 87, 96, 257, 312
Collected Poems 1912–1944 (ed. Martz, 1983) 266
‘Eurydice’ 59–60, 266
Helen in Egypt (1985) 96
Notes on Thought and Vision and the Wise Sappho (1988) 59, 266
The Flowering of the Rod (1945) 90
The Sea Garden (1916) 17
The Walls Do Not Fall (1944) 90
Tribute to Freud (1956) 59, 266
Tribute to the Angels (1945) 90
Trilogy (1973) 52, 90–91
Hacker, Marilyn 189, 280
Hague, Gill
‘For a Housewife’ 146
‘Three/One Women’ 152
‘Uncertainty’ 149, 282
Halliday, Caroline 319
‘Confession’ 146, 149
‘November ’77’ 146
‘Turkish Bath’ 148
Hamilton, Cicely 17
Hamilton, Helen 18, 319
Hope and Other Poems (1924) 18
‘Jingo-Woman’ 47, 264
Napoo! A Book of War Bêtes Noires (1918) 47–48, 55
The Compleat Schoolmarm: A Story of Promise and Fulfilment (1917) 18, 55–56
‘The Romancing Poet’ 47–48, 264
‘The Super-Patriot’ 47
‘The writer of Patriotic “Ad”’ 47
Hamilton-King, Harriet Eleanor 12
Hannah, Sophie 188, 248, 319
‘The End of Love’ 189
Hannan, Maggie 194, 213, 229, 231, 320
Liar, Jones (1995) 213, 291, 294, 300
‘Life Model’ 291
‘Tap’ 229, 294
‘You Sign’ 249, 300
Harrison, Wendy (‘Night Encounter’ ) 146
Hazel, Gladys Mary (The House 1920) 259
Heaney, Seamus 168, 208
Hearing Eye Press (and writing collective) 170
Heisenberg’s ‘Principle of Uncertainty’ 227–28
Hendry, Diana 320
Herbert, Kathleen 320
Herd, Tracey 180, 194, 219, 320
‘Big Girls’ 219–20, 292
No Hiding Place (1996) 292
Hesketh, Phoebe 87, 97, 134, 136, 320
(‘She Knows Me Not’) 100
Hickey, Emily 12
Higgins, Rita Ann 179, 194, 320
‘The Deserter’ 224, 293
Philomena’s Revenge (1992) 293
Sunnyside Plucked: New and Selected Poems (1996) 293
Hill, Selima 192, 193, 321
‘A Voice in the Garden’ 219, 292
‘Chicken Feathers’ 299
‘Down by the Salley Gardens’ 243, 298
‘I want a lover’ 287
‘I want to be a Cow’ 188
‘My Sister’s Sister’ 220, 292
Saying Hello at the Station (1984) 292, 298, 299
The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness (1989) 185
Trembling Hearts in the Bodies of Dogs: New and Selected Poems (1994) 299
Violet (1997) 287, 292
Holden, Molly 87, 97, 99, 102, 134, 137, 321
Holiday, Jane (‘Maryse’) 146
Holland, Jane 194, 321
‘Baize Queens’ 190
‘Invention’ 190
‘Pulse’ 3
The Brief History of a Disreputable Woman (1997) 190
Holtby, Winifred 15, 16, 24, 27, 44, 45, 71
‘Beauty the Lovers Gift’ 82, 269
‘Boats in the Bay’ 82, 269
home 10, 22, 107, 127, 197, 200
Hooley, Teresa 18, 46, 321
Collected Poems (1926) 18
Horovitz, Frances 87, 96, 97, 137, 156, 161, 193, 321
Water Over Stone (1980) 137
Horovitz, Michael 86, 96, 171, 270
Houston, Libby 87, 96, 97, 272, 322
Hughes, Frieda 194, 322
Hughes, Ted 233, 296
Huk, Romana 154, 282, 283, 299
hymns 56, 110, 117
identity 30, 33, 39, 90, 100, 104, 187, 197–211, 213
Imagism 8, 15, 58–59
Inchfawn, Fay (The Verse Book of a Homely Woman 1920) 259
Innes, C. L. 204, 226, 273, 290, 293
Irigaray, Luce 84, 233
Jackowska, Nicki 87, 104, 322
(Incubus, 1981) 105, 139, 274
Jackson, Ada 24, 25, 45, 83, 260, 322
‘Anne Shakespeare’ 83, 270
Behold the Jew (1943) 25, 52, 260
‘Hitler Youth’ 50, 264
‘The Farmer’s Mother’ 83
The Widow and Other Poems (1933) 270
‘The Widow’ 270
World in Labour (1942) 50, 264
Jacob, Violet 22
Jacobus, Mary 266, 274, 278
Jamie, Kathleen 171, 179–80, 194, 207, 208, 224–25, 233, 254, 301, 322
‘Arraheids’ 207, 290
‘Forget it’ 224–25, 293
‘Holding Fast – Truth and Change in Poetry’, Strong Words (2000) 296
Jizzen (1999) 187, 225, 291, 293
‘Meadowsweet’ 208, 291
‘Mother-May-I’ 180, 286
Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980–1994 (2002) 286, 293
‘Mr and Mrs Scotland’ 286
‘The Queen of Sheba’ 293
The Queen of Sheba (1994) 179, 290, 292–93
Jarman, Wrenne 87
Jennings, Elizabeth 5, 87, 88, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98–99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 106, 120, 124, 126, 172, 173, 194, 244, 323
‘A Depression’ 100
A Sense of the World (1958) 98–99, 273, 278
A Way of Looking (1955) 94
‘About These Things’ 99, 273
An Anthology of Modern Verse (ed., 1960) 273
‘At Noon’ 98, 273
‘Choices’ 98
Collected Poems (1985) 193
Every Changing Shape (1961) 98, 273
‘Her Garden’ 98, 134–35, 278
‘In a Foreign City’ 98
‘Lisa’ 100
Lucidities (1970) 99
New Collected Poems (2002) 272, 273
‘One Flesh’ 100
Poems (1953) 94, 272
Poetry Today (1961) 94, 98, 99, 272, 273
‘Questions’ 100
Recoveries (1964) 99, 273
Selected Poems (1979) 278
Song for a Birth or a Death (1961) 98, 273
‘Still Life and Observer’ 99–100, 273
‘Suicides’ 100
The Animals’ Arrival (1969) 99
‘The Climbers’ 94, 272
‘The Clown’ 99, 273
‘The Fishermen’ 94, 272
‘The Interrogator’ 100
‘The Island’ 94, 272
The Mind Has Mountains (1966) 99, 100
‘World I Have Not Made’ 98, 273
Jennings, Paula (‘Lesbian’) (‘Dressed to kill’) 148
Johnson, Amryl 181, 205, 323
Jones, Einir 206, 323
Joseph, Jenny 87, 97–98, 102, 104, 172, 324
‘Danaë’ 97
‘Eurydice to Orpheus’ 97
‘Jenny Joseph’ (Contemporary Poets, ed. Riggs, 1996) 87, 98, 132, 278
‘Persephone Returns’ 97
Selected Poems (1992) 273
‘The lost continent’ 98, 273
The Unlooked-for Season (1960) 96, 273
Juhasz, Suzanne 99, 273
Jung, Carl 9, 71, 258
Kantaris, Sylvia 87, 102, 193, 216, 324
‘Dirty Washing’ 189
Dirty Washing (1989) 297, 298, 300
‘Domestic’ 216
‘In Passing’ 300
Lad’s Love (1993) 216, 292
‘The Tenth Muse’ 242, 297
The Tenth Muse (1983) 297
‘The Whitsun Trainspotters’ 244, 298
Kaplan, Cora 55, 62, 265, 266, 270
Katzin, Olga (‘Sagittarius’) 87
Kay, Jackie 171, 176, 179, 183, 189, 194, 195, 198–200, 201, 203, 222, 245, 324
‘Condemned Property’ 216–17, 292
‘Crown and Country’ 186, 287
‘Dance of the Cherry Blossom’ 223
‘In My Country’ 198, 288
‘In the Pullman’ 299
‘Kail and Callaloo’ 198, 289
‘Mouth’ 222
‘Mummy and Donor and Deirdre’ 223
Off Colour (1998), 183, 186, 194, 200, 286, 287, 289
Other Lovers (1993) 183, 222, 288, 292, 299
‘Photo in the Locket’ 223
‘Pride’ 200, 289
‘Sign’ 212
‘Somebody Else’ 286
‘Teeth’ 186, 287
The Adoption Papers (1991) 183, 197, 198–200, 201, 223, 289
‘The Red Graveyard’ 299
‘The Right Season’ 299
‘The Same Note’ 245, 299
‘Twelve-bar Bessie’ 299
‘Where It Hurts’ 186, 287
Kazantzis, Judith 87, 102, 104, 147, 149, 324
A Poem for Guatemala (1988) 184
‘No room in the ark’ 146
‘The Errant Unicorn’ (On Gender and Writing, ed. Wandor, 1983 ) 146, 281
‘the long-haired woman’ 147, 279, 281
The Wicked Queen’ (1980) 105, 190, 274
‘Towards an abortion’ 148, 149
Kennedy, David 228–29, 230, 237, 294, 295, 296
Kerrigan, Catherine, 244, 286, 298
Khalvati, Mimi 183, 195, 202–03, 203, 204, 205, 325
In White Ink (1991) 203, 289, 290, 292
‘Rubaiyat’ 202, 289
‘Stone of Patience’ 220–21, 292
‘The Waiting House’ 203, 204, 290
‘Turning the Page’ 290
Kidd, Helen 179, 201, 224, 286, 289, 293
Kinnahan, Linda 154, 163, 282, 283, 284
Kneale, Trevor 102, 273
Knowles, Susanne 97, 325
Koudis, Virginia M. 267
Kramer, Lotte 87, 103, 325
Larkin, Philip 86, 88, 89, 94, 122, 155, 244, 276
Lassner, Phyllis 127, 128, 277
Lawrence D. H. 78, 269
Leavis, F. R. 23
Left Review 44, 50
Lehmann, John 61, 86, 266
Leighton, Angela 33, 127, 258, 261, 277
Letts, Winifred 18, 325
More Songs from Leinster (1926) 18
Songs from Leinster (1913) 18
‘The Spires of Oxford’ 18
Levertov, Denise 4, 87, 97, 103, 133, 134, 172, 183, 186, 193, 325
‘Abel’s Bride’ 130, 277
Candles in Babylon (1982) 297
Footprints (1972) 103
‘From the Roof’ 135, 278
Here and Now (1957) 277, 278, 279
‘Marriage II’ 128–29, 277
‘Matins’ 133, 278
Sands of the Well (1996) 300
Selected Poems (1985) 277, 278, 279, 297
‘She and the Muse’ 243, 297
‘The Earthwoman and the Waterwoman’ 137, 279
‘The Five-Day Rain’ 130, 277
The Freeing of the Dust (1975) 103
The Jacob’s Ladder (1961) 278
The Sorrow Dance (1967) 277
To Stay Alive (1971) 103
With Eyes at the Back of our Heads (1960) 277
‘Wondering’ 299, 300
‘Zest’ 133, 278
Lewis, Gwyneth 180, 206, 326
‘Advice on Adultery’ 189
‘Two Rivers’ 206, 290
Licking the Bed Clean (ed. Fell et al., 1978) 140–41, 142, 150, 281, 282
Light, Alison 261
Listener, The 23
Lochhead, Liz 87, 102, 105, 139, 171, 179, 193, 195, 208, 224, 245, 326
‘An Abortion’ 188, 287
Bagpipe Muzak (1991) 179
Dreaming Frankenstein and Other Poems (1984) 179, 287, 288, 290, 299
‘Five Berlin Poems’ 179
‘In the Dreamschool’ 191, 288
‘Inter-City’ 207, 290
‘Introduction’ (‘Writers in Brief, I’ 1978) 105, 274
‘Kidspoem/Bairnsang’ 179, 208, 286, 291
‘Liz Lochhead’ (Six Women Poets ed. Kinsman, 1992) 299
‘Liz Lochhead’ (Sleeping with Monsters, 1991) 280
‘Mirror’s Song’ 245, 299
The Grimm Sisters (1981) 179, 274
‘The Other Woman’ 189
Lomax, Marion [Robyn Bolam] ‘Anorexic’, (Collected Poems) 188, 287
Long, Pauline (‘If women could speak what language would they use?’) 149–50, 282
Longley, Edna 177, 186, 285, 287
Lowell, Amy 17, 22, 58, 78
Loy, Mina 6, 8, 21, 26, 27, 58, 60, 65–69, 70, 153, 158, 259, 326
‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose 1923–1925’ 27, 60, 66–67, 69
‘Aphorisms of Futurism’ 68, 69, 267
‘English Rose’ 67
‘Feminist Manifesto’ 68
‘Gertrude Stein’ 69, 267
‘Love Songs’ (1923) [‘Songs of Joannes’ (1917)] 68, 267
Lunar Baedecker (1923) 67
‘Modern Poetry’ 66, 267
‘Nancy Cunard’ 66, 267
‘Ova, Among the Neighbours’ 69
‘Parturition’ 69, 267
The Last Lunar Baedeker (ed. Conover, 1982) 267
The Lost Lunar Baedeker (ed. Conover, 1997) 65, 267
Lucas, Winifred 12
Lynd, Sylvia 22, 24, 30, 327
(‘The Solitary’) 83, 270
Lyon, Hugh 265
lyric ‘I’ 30, 84, 86, 104, 154, 156, 166–67, 183, 240, 249–50
lyric poetry/tradition 3, 5, 12, 14, 29, 34, 43, 112, 164, 165, 167, 171, 176, 187, 188–89, 196, 240, 241, 244, 247, 250, 254
Macaulay, Rose 18–19, 260, 327
(Three Days, 1919) 18
Maguire, Sarah 169, 191–92, 234, 240, 251, 288, 297, 327
‘On Spilt Milk’ (Don’t Ask, 2003) 221, 292
‘Poetry Makes Nothing Happen’ (Strong Words, 2000) 298
‘Postmodernism’ 296
Marcus, Jane 269
Marinetti, Filippo 68, 267
Mark, Alison 156, 157, 158, 283
Markey, Janice 129, 277
Markman, Stephanie (‘and mother why did you tell me’) 149, 282
Marson, Una 327
(Collected Poems, 1945) 20, 181, 205
Marx, Erica 96
Matheson Hilda 12, 23, 39
Mayer, Gerda 87, 327
McGuckian, Medbh 87, 102, 170, 178, 192, 193, 208, 231, 241, 244, 250–52, 257, 327
‘A Different Same’ 251–52, 300
‘Aunts’ 103, 274
‘Black Note Study’ 250, 300
Captain Lavender (1994) 300
‘Elegy for an Irish speaker’ 251, 300
‘Marconi’s Cottage’ 231, 295
Marconi’s Cottage (1991) 295, 300
‘Medbh McGuckian’ (Sleeping with Monsters, 1991) 300, 300
‘The Flower Master’ 251, 300
The Flower Master and Other Poems (1993) 300
‘Venus and the Rain’ (1994) 251, 300
Venus and the Rain (1994) 300
Meehan, Paula 178, 194, 328
(‘Child Burial’) 178
Metamorphosis 227, 232–36
Mew, Charlotte 5, 8, 16, 17, 19, 22, 26, 27, 48, 71, 72–76, 78, 120, 212, 260, 328
‘Asylum Road’ 72
‘At The Convent Gate’ 72, 268
Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (ed. Warner, 1997) 268
‘Early Poems’ 72
‘In Nunhead Cemetery’ 72
‘Ken’ 72, 268
‘Madeleine in Church’ 73–74, 76, 268
‘On the Road to the Sea’ 74, 268
Saturday Market (1921) 76
‘Saturday Market’ 75–76, 268
‘The Cenotaph’ 43–48, 264
The Farmer’s Bride (1916) 76
‘The Farmer’s Bride’ 74–75, 268
‘The Quiet House’ 72–73, 268
The Rambling Sailor (1929) 76
Meynell, Alice 4, 5, 8, 11–12, 16, 22, 27, 30, 31, 32–35, 33, 36, 38, 328
A Father of Women (1917) 16, 261
‘A Father of Women’ 11, 261
‘A General Communion’ 34, 261
Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry (introd. Sackville-West, 1947) 32, 33–34, 261
Collected Poems (1913) 11, 261
Essays (1917) 16
‘Free Will’ 33
‘In Sleep’ 34, 261
Later Poems (1902) 11, 261
‘Mary the mother of Jesus’ 34
‘Maternity’ 34, 258, 261
Poems on the War (1915) 11
‘Renunciation’ 12
Ten Poems 1913–1915 (1915) 11, 261
‘The English Metres’ 31, 33, 261
The Last Poems of Alice Meynell (1923) 12, 261
‘The Laws of Verse’ 33, 261
‘The Modern Mother’ 33, 34–35, 261
The Poems of Alice Meynell (1940) 261
The Shepherdess and Other Verses (1914) 6, 11
‘The Young Neophyte’ 12
‘Thoughts on Separation’ 12
Meynell, Viola 22, 260, 329
‘Miles, Susan’ (Ursula Roberts) 19–20, 87, 329
Annotations (1922) 259
Dunch (1918) 19, 20, 259
‘Grass upon the Housetop’ 20
Lettice Delmer (1958) 19, 48, 259, 264
‘The Cenotaph’ 48, 264
Millay, Edna St Vincent 8, 25, 61, 71, 78
Mills, Paul 227, 237, 293, 294, 296
Minogue, Sally 255, 280
Mitchell, Elma 87, 96, 100, 102, 131, 136, 139, 180, 329
‘At First, My Daughter’ 136, 279
‘Census Return’ 104, 274
‘Recreation’ 131, 278
The Human Cage (1979) 274
‘The Knitter in Bed 14’ 104, 274
People Etcetera 278, 279
‘Thoughts After Ruskin’ 104
Mitchell, Juliet 95, 126, 272, 276, 295
Mitchell, Ruth Comfort (‘He Went for a Soldier’) 44
Mitchell, Susan 22
Mitchison, Naomi 24, 44, 52–53, 71, 82, 124, 260, 265, 305
All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage (1975) 269
‘Breaking Up the Home’ 265
‘Dick and Colin at the Salmon Nets’ 82, 269
The Alban Goes Out (1939) 52
The Cleansing of the Knife and other poems (1978) 52–53
‘The Farm Woman 1942’ 49, 264
‘To Some Young Communists from an Older Socialist’ 53, 265
‘Woman Alone’ 82, 269, 270
You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920–1940 (1940) 270
modernism 5, 6, 15, 16, 20, 21, 31, 48, 58–70, 69, 75, 86, 107, 112, 161, 282
(High) 45, 58, 71, 84, 156
modernist movement/practices 6, 8, 9, 15, 18, 23, 52, 64, 65, 69, 77, 109
poetry 58, 78
Mohin, Lilian 152
(One Foot on the Mountain ed., 1979) 102–03, 140, 145–50, 148, 273, 281
Monk, Geraldine 87, 102, 153, 154, 156, 329
monologue 43, 49, 74, 77, 81, 84, 114, 115, 145, 147, 156, 220
dramatic monologue
see dramatic poetry
Monro, Alida 16, 23, 78, 259, 269
Monro, Harold 10, 12–13, 22, 38, 76, 78, 258, 259, 260, 262
Some Contemporary Poets (1920) 17, 19, 20, 258, 259, 260, 268
Monroe, Harriet 259
Montefiore, Jan 255, 268
Montgomery, Mary 206
Moore, Marianne 8, 22, 25, 58, 61, 259
Morrissey, Sinéad 178, 179, 330
Morton, Eva M. 12
motherhood 10, 34, 35, 77, 78, 135, 136, 144
mothers/mother figures 187, 247, 248
Mottram, Eric 88, 102, 271
Movement, the 5, 89, 94, 98
Mulford, Wendy 6, 87, 102, 107, 131, 153, 154, 156, 160–63, 164, 165, 166–67, 168, 193, 282, 330
‘7’ 284
‘A Marxist/Feminist Viewpoint’ (On Gender and Writing, ed. Wandor, 1983) 160, 161, 284
‘Afterword’ 284
‘Against the cold: two she’s and a he’ 161
and suddenly, supposing (2002) 284
‘How do you live?’ 162–63, 284
‘l’ 160, 284
No Fee: A line or two for free (with Riley, 1979) 164
‘p’ 284
‘s’ 163, 284
The ABC of Writing (1985) 284
‘The Ancrene Riwle’ 162, 284
‘The meaning of blue’ 161, 284
The Virago Book of Love Poetry (ed. with Kidd, Mishkin and Russell, 1991) 162, 284
‘Trawls’ 161–62, 284
Mulholland, Rosa 12
multivocal dramatisations, 17, 19, 43, 109, 113, 212
Mulvey, Laura 295
Murphy, Gwendolen 23
Muse 126–27, 128, 134, 136, 241–43, 242
(the ‘Aisling’) 103
mythical characters 97, 103, 105, 188, 195
Circe 105, 236
Eurydice 59–60, 82, 97, 103, 217, 235, 266, 292
Galatea 227, 235, 296
Helen of Troy 60, 82, 121
Medusa 236, 296
Penelope 103, 105, 235
Persephone 41, 97, 103, 110, 159, 284
(Demeter and) 144
Thetis 233–34, 235, 236, 238, 296
mythmaking 59, 65, 103, 109, 190, 233
mythology 122, 124, 145, 190, 227–28, 232–36
Namjoshi, Suniti 330
narrative 9, 24, 52, 84, 110, 187
Nesbitt, Edith 25
New Generation, the (see Poetry Review 1994)
New Left Review 95
New Statesman and Nation, the 14, 15, 25, 61, 258
ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan 87, 102, 178, 188, 331
(‘She Opened the Egg’) 287
ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala 177, 178, 206, 331
Nichols, Grace 102, 171, 181, 195, 198, 200–01, 205, 206, 225, 331
‘A Poem for Us’ 241, 297
‘Epilogue’ 206, 290
‘Grace Nichols’ (Six Women Poets, ed. Kinsman, 1992) 105, 290
i is a long-memoried woman (1983), 200–01, 225, 289, 290
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989), 286, 287, 297, 300
‘Ode To My Bleed’ 188, 287
‘Of course when they ask for poems about the “realities” of black women’ 286
‘On Poems and Crotches’ 249, 300
‘Spring’ 243, 298
‘Taint’ 289
The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) 188, 298
‘We the Women’ 289
‘Web of Kin’ 289
Nicolson, Nigel 90, 262, 271
Nott, Kathleen 96, 331
Noyes, Alfred 12, 258
Oakley, Ann 277, 278
O’Brien, Peggy 178, 208, 285, 291, 295
O’Callaghan, Julie 332
‘Federal Case’ 224, 293
‘Opening Lines: Dramaticules’ 293
‘Pep-Talk to Poets from their Sales Manager’ 170, 285
What’s What? (1991) 285, 293
O’Donnell, Mary 178, 332
Olsen, Tillie 137, 279
O’Malley, Mary 178, 207, 332
‘The Shape of Saying’ (Where the Rocks Float 1993) , 178, 208, 286, 291, 295
Oosthuizen, Ann (‘Bulletins from the front line’) 152
oral tradition 110, 171
Ostriker, Alice 255
O’Sullivan, Maggie 153, 154, 193, 332
‘riverrunning (realisations For Charles Bernstein’ 154, 282
Out of Everywhere (ed., 1996) 283
Oswald, Alice 176, 186, 244, 332
‘Ballad of a Shadow’ 298
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996) 298
Ovid 233, 236
Oxford 13, 94, 95, 169, 170, 285
Padel, Ruth 5, 175, 333
Pankhurst, Sylvia 20, 333
‘A Wreck’ 56–57
Writ on Cold Slate (1992) 44–45, 56
Papaleonida, Paraskevi 198, 201, 289
Parker, Dorothy 71
parody 6, 7, 113, 117, 217
Parry Eden, Helen 22, 260, 333
pastiche 6, 39, 113
Peach, Linden 207, 290
Pearson, John 258, 259, 260, 266
Peg’s Paper 13
persona(e) 7, 19, 27, 37, 38, 39, 69, 71, 73, 124, 174, 192, 235, 238
Peschmann, Hermann 86–87, 90, 92, 271
Petit, Pascale 183
Pierpoint, Katherine (‘This Dead Relationship’, Truffle Beds 1995) 189, 287
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona 188, 333
Dogs (1993) 188, 287
‘Independent Means’ 188, 287
‘Long-stemmed Rose’ 188, 287
Pitter, Ruth 8, 19, 24, 27, 30, 41–42, 87, 91, 91–92, 92, 93, 96, 100, 102, 106, 134, 173, 333
A Heaven to Find (1987) 131
Collected Poems (introd. Jennings, 1990) 92, 194, 271, 278
‘Old, Childless, Husbandless’ 270
‘Pot-Bound’ 131
Still By Choice (1966) 131, 278
The Bridge (1945) 92
‘The Ermine’ 271
The Ermine (1953) 92, 271
‘The New House’ 135, 278
The Ploughboy’s Plea’ 131
Pixner, Stef 149, 334
Place 195, 197–211
Plath, Sylvia 4, 87, 89, 95, 97, 99, 106–07, 124, 129, 131, 138, 149, 155, 172, 174, 244, 281, 334
Ariel (1965) 97
Collected Poems (ed. Hughes, 1981) 97, 277, 278, 279
‘Kindness’ 129, 277
‘Lesbos’ 129, 277
‘Metaphors’ 135–36, 279
‘Morning Song’ 136, 138, 279
‘Point Shirley’ 129, 277
‘Stillborn’ 137, 279
‘Stings’ 129, 277
‘Sylvia Plath’ (Couzyn) 129, 277
‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’ 129, 277
‘The Bee Meeting’ 129, 277
The Colossus (1960) 96
The Journals of Sylvia Plath (ed. McCullough, 1982) 99, 129–30, 273, 277
‘The Manor Garden’ 136
‘The Swarm’ 129
‘Wintering’ 132, 278
PN Review 170
Poet Laureate 4, 12, 19, 30, 169
poetess, 10, 29, 32, 36, 39, 85
poetry
‘Dub’ 181, 207–08, 225
Edwardian 8, 30
Georgian 8, 15, 19, 30
in performance (‘open mike’ ) 111, 171, 194
nature 92, 117
Poetry Bookshop, The 16
Poetry Society, the, 101
Poetry Wales (Seren Books) 170, 180
post-scientific 227–28, 237–39
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 258
Poetry Review 9, 170, 258, 261
New Generation poets (1994) 170, 194, 288
special edition: ‘Women-Poets’ (1912) 10–11, 26, 29, 258, 260
Poetry London 183
Pope, Jessie 17, 46, 334
(‘From a Trench’ ) 46
(‘Over the Top’) 46
Porteus, Katrina 180, 286, 335
postmodernist/ism 5, 6, 86, 109, 176, 191, 213
Proctor, Adelaide 2
Prynne, J. H. 159, 160
psychoanalysis 15, 21, 60, 77
Pugh, Sheenagh 5, 87, 102, 137, 180, 185, 194, 234, 335
‘Sheenagh Pugh’ (interview) 296
‘Earth Studies’ (1982) 180
‘Envying Owen Beattie’ 248, 300
Stonelight (1999) 300
The Beautiful Lie (2002) 300
‘Toast’ 248–49, 300
Pumphrey, Martin 111, 124, 275, 276
Punch 22
Purcell, Sally 87, 186, 335
Pykett, Lyn 131, 244, 278, 280, 298
Quinn, Sr. Berenetta 227, 233, 293, 296
race 103, 176–83, 181, 214
Radford, Dollie 12
Radford, Margaret Maitland 22
Raine, Kathleen 4, 8, 24, 87, 91, 92–93, 93, 96, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 106, 125, 137, 172, 173, 244, 260, 335
Collected Poems 1935–1980 (1981) 92, 193
‘Kathleen Raine The Tenth Decade’ (ed. Lindop) 271
Selected Poems (1988) 271, 276
Stone and Flower (1943) 92
The Inner Journey of the Poet (1982) 271
The Pythoness (1948) 271
‘Word Made Flesh’ 92–93, 271
Raitt, Suzanne 158, 159, 283
Randall, Deborah 248, 336
(White Eyes, Dark Ages, 1993) 300
Randell, Elaine 87, 102, 153, 156, 336
Ratcliffe, Dorothy 25
Ratushinskaya, Irina 244
Reedy, Carlyle 96, 102, 153, 156, 336
(‘Working Processes of a Woman Poet’) 153–54, 282
Rees-Jones, Deryn 5, 180, 229, 234–35, 248, 336
‘And Please Do Not Presume’ 220, 292
‘Be Prepared!’ (Interview) 286
‘It Will Not Do’ 220, 292
‘Making for Planet Alice’ 192
Making For Planet Alice (ed., 1997) 292, 293
‘Objecting to the Subject:’ 294
‘Service Wash’ 221–22, 293
The Memory Tray (1994) 292, 293
‘The Nothing That Is Not There and the Nothing That Is’, 248, 296, 300
Reilly, Catherine 17, 46, 172, 260, 264
Rexroth, Kenneth 86, 87, 89, 270, 271
Rhondda, Lady Margaret 16
(This Was My World, 1933) 259
Rice, Nicky 336
Rich, Adrienne 125–26, 135, 136, 189, 244, 276, 279
(Riding), Laura Jackson 4, 8, 16, 22, 25, 58, 69, 69–70, 173, 260, 336
A Pamphlet against Anthologies (1928) 70
A Survey of Modernist Poetry (with Robert Graves, 1927) 69
Collected Poems (1980) 69–70, 193, 267
Epilogue (ed., 1935–37) 16
‘Helen of Troy’ 60
‘Memories of Mortalities’ 69, 267
Rational Meaning (with Schuyler B. Jackson, 1997) 268
The Poems of Laura Riding (1938, 1980) 267
The Seizin Press 16, 69
The Word ‘Woman’ (with Schuyler B. Jackson, 1993) 58–59, 69, 267
Ridler, Anne 8, 23, 24, 27, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 102, 106, 136, 173, 260, 337
‘A Matter of Life and Death’ 279
A Matter of Life and Death (1959) 96, 136, 279
‘Bathing in the Windrush’ 93, 272
Collected Poems (1994) 138, 194, 272, 279
‘In conversation with’ (Grevel Lindop) 279
‘The Gaze’ 138, 279
The Golden Bird (1951) 90, 272
Riley, Denise 6, 87, 95, 102, 107, 131, 153, 154, 183, 193, 245, 282, 337
‘A Note on sex and the “reclaiming of language” ’ 164, 165, 284
‘A Shortened Set’ 245, 299
Am I That Name? (1988) 167, 284
‘Denise Riley in Conversation’ (with Romana Huk), 282, 284, 299
Dry Air (1985) 284
‘Is There Linguistic Guilt?’ 166–67, 284
‘Knowing in the real world’ 299
‘Letter to the Editor’ 164, 284
‘Lure, 1963’ 245, 299
‘Lyric’ 299
Marxism for Infants (1977) 164
Mop Mop Georgette (1993) 194, 299
‘No’ 167
No Fee: A line or two for free (with Mulford, 1978) 164
‘Poem beginning with a line from Proverbs’ 299
‘Rayon’ 245, 299
‘she has ingested her wife’ 284
‘such face bones honeycombed sockets’ 165, 284
‘True North’ 245, 299
‘two ambitions to remember’ 165–66, 167, 284
‘Waiting’ 272, 284
‘Wherever you are, be somewhere else’ 163, 168, 284
Roberts Jones, Sally 338
Roberts, Lynette 8, 25, 87, 90, 337
(Gods with Stainless Ears, 1951) 52, 90
Roberts, Michael 58–59, 60, 63, 266
Roberts, Michèle 87, 102, 131, 142, 144–45, 146, 338
‘Afterword’ (Touch Papers, 1982) 282
‘And then I have been wanting to mourn’ 144, 281
‘Civilisation’s Acrobat’ 144
‘Go away: For Pam’ 144
‘Klefshaven’ 142, 144, 281
‘Madwoman at Rodmell’ 281
‘memories of trees’ 145, 281
‘Questions and Answers’ 144–45, 281
‘The Amazon’s Song’ 144
The Mirror of the Mother (1986) 144, 281
‘The Mistresses’ Song to Husbands’ 144
‘The Vicar’s Wife’s Song’ 144
‘The wanderer and The seafarer revisited’ 144
‘Women’s entry into culture is experienced as lack’ 144
Roberts, Ursula see ‘Miles, Susan’
Robinson, Alan 280
Robinson, Mary 12
Rootham, Helen 21
Roper, Esther 44, 263
Rose, Harriet 141
Rossetti, Christina 10, 11, 62
Goblin Market 61, 62, 75
‘Winter: My Secret’ 33, 74
Rouse, Anne 183, 338
‘Cigarettes’ 190
‘Play on’ 190
‘Spunk Talking’ 190
‘The Anaesthetist’ 190
‘The Bluff’ 190
‘The Outlands’ 194, 288
Timing (1997) 190, 288
Rowbotham, Sheila 142
‘Harry McShane’ 142
‘The Role of Women in the Revolution defined by some Socialist men (1968)’ 142, 149, 281
‘The sad tale of nobody me’ 142
Rumens, Carol 3, 5, 87, 102, 103, 137, 139–40, 173, 174–75, 183, 184–85, 193, 199, 215–16, 242, 297, 338
‘A Bookshop Revisited’ 3, 257, 285
‘A Geometry-Lesson for the Children of England’ 184–85
‘A Lawn for the English Family’ 184, 286
A Strange Girl in Bright Colours (1973) 131, 278
‘An Easter Garland’ 96, 286
‘As Radical as Reality Itself’ (interview with Marion Lomax) 257, 280, 286, 297
‘Ballad of the Morning After’ 175, 285
‘Clouding the Borders’ 199, 289
From Berlin to Heaven (1989) 286
‘Houses By Day’ 131, 278
‘In the Bedroom of the Page’ 242, 297
Making for the Open: Post-Feminist Poetry (ed., 1985) 150, 172, 280, 282
‘My Leaky Coracle’ 253, 301
New Women Poets (ed., 1990) 171, 172–73, 185, 285, 292
‘Outside Oswiecim’ 184
‘Rules for Beginners’ 219, 292
‘Carol Rumens’ (Six Women Poets) 285
Selected Poems (1987) 276, 285
Star Whisper (1983) 286
‘Stealing The Genre’ 241, 297
‘The Fuchsia Knight’ 244, 298
The Miracle Diet (1997) 188
‘The Muse of Argument’ 242, 297
Thinking of Skins: New and Selected Poems (1993) 285, 286, 292, 297, 298
‘Two Women’ 175, 285
Unplayed Music (1981) 292
Rutherford, Irene 22
Sackville, Lady Margaret 8, 17, 257, 338
A Book of Verse by Living Women (1910) 2, 11, 12, 17, 257, 258
Collected Poems (1939) 17, 265
‘Nostra Culpa’ 47, 264
The Pageant of War (1916) 17, 51, 264, 265
Sackville-West, Vita 4, 8, 19, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, 34, 36, 38–39, 45, 78, 87, 90, 271, 339
Collected Poems (1933) 38, 262
Solitude (1938) 39, 262
The Garden (1946) 89–90, 271
The King’s Daughter (1929) 39, 262
The Land (1926) 19, 31, 38, 39, 89
‘Sagittarius’ see Katzin, Olga
Salzman, Eva 183, 339
Sansom, Ann 339
‘Base Linguistics’ 253, 301
Romance (1994) 292, 301
‘Voice’ 220, 292
Satyamurti, Carole 185, 339
‘Behind the Lines’ 193
Selected Poems (1998) 194
science 6, 8, 14, 92, 227–32, 228–32, 230, 231, 232
Scott, Diana
Bread and Roses (ed., 1982) 172, 280, 281, 282
‘A Love Poem to Myself’ 147, 152, 281
‘Of the Children of Other People’ 146
‘Six poems for hospital workers’ 146
‘Social Security visiting inspector semi-blues’ 146
Scovell, E. J. 16, 25, 87, 91, 92, 93, 96, 102, 106, 134, 136, 173, 339
‘A Short Night’ 134, 278
‘A Wartime Story’ 264
‘A Wife’ 128, 277
Collected Poems (1988) 193, 277, 278, 279
‘Domestic’ 134, 278
‘In A Flat’ 278
Listening to Collared Doves (1986) 134
‘Poems on Infancy’ 134, 137
‘The First Year’ 279
The Space Between (1982) 134
Scupham, Peter 93, 134, 272, 278
self-concealment 1, 7, 34, 71, 254
dramatisation 1, 39
realisation 36, 71, 84, 116, 123, 183, 214
transformation 128, 233, 234, 235
Senior, Olive 181
Sergeant, Howard 88, 95, 271
Sexton, Anne 99, 149, 244, 281
Shapcott, Jo 1, 5, 183, 192, 193, 194, 195, 201–02, 203, 227, 235, 238–39, 242, 243, 340
‘About Language and How it Works’ (interview with John Stammers) 257, 297
‘Confounding Geography’ 289
‘Electroplating the Baby’ 230
Electroplating the Baby (1988) 298
Her Book: Poems 1988–1998 (2000) 192, 289, 293, 296, 297, 298
‘Mad Cow Dance’ 238, 297
‘Motherland’ 201–02, 289
‘Muse’ 242–43, 297
My Life Asleep (1998) 296, 297
‘On Tour: The Alps’ 298
‘Pavlova’s Physics’ 237, 296
‘Phrase Book’ 184
Phrase Book (1992) 286, 289, 296, 297, 298
‘Robert Watches Elizabeth Knitting’ 298
‘Superman Sounds Depressed’ 222, 293
‘The Mad Cow Believes She is the Spirit of the Weather’ 239, 297
‘The Mad Cow in Love’ 239, 297
‘The Mad Cow in Space’ 239, 297
‘The Mad Cow Talks Back’ 238, 296
‘The Mad Cow Tries to Write the Good Poem’ 239, 297
‘The Shape-shifter’ (interview with Janet Philips) 296
‘Thetis’ 235, 296
Shattock, Joanne 271
Shove, Fredegonde (née Maitland) 19, 22, 259, 260, 340
(Christina Rossetti) 19
Showalter, Elaine 42, 263
Shuttle, Penelope 87, 102, 104, 105, 137, 156, 193, 340
A Leaf Out of His Book (1999) 287
‘Adventures with my Horse’ 235
‘Penelope Shuttle’ (Don’t Ask, 2003) 274, 296
The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman 274
‘Ultra Sound’ 187, 287
‘Vanity’ 187, 287
Sigerson Shorter, Dora 12
Silcock, Ruth 185, 340
Silgardo, Melanie 183
Sinason, Valerie 103, 141, 149, 340
‘Dressed to be killed’ 146, 149
‘Passing the test’ 152
Sinclair, May 16, 21, 27, 48, 58, 340
‘Field Ambulance in Retreat’ 48, 264
The Dark Night (1924) 21
Sitwell, Edith 2, 3, 6, 8, 19, 20–21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 48, 52, 60, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 87, 90, 97, 153, 158, 258, 260, 341
A Poet’s Notebook (1943) 64, 267
Aspects of Modern Poetry (1934) 23, 61
Bucolic Comedies (1923) 64
Collected Poems (1957) 64, 266, 271
‘Colonel Fantock’ 61–62, 266
Façade 20–21, 61, 66
Gold Coast Customs (1929) 51–52
‘Modern Poetry’ 64, 266
Rustic Elegies (1927) 65, 267
‘Sir Beelzebub’ 66
‘Some Notes on My Own Poetry’ 64–65, 69, 96, 267
‘Some Observations on Women’s Poetry’ 2, 61, 257, 266
‘Still Falls the Rain The Raids, 1940. Night and Dawn’ 51
Taken Care of: an Autobiography (1965) 266
The English Eccentrics (1933) 61
‘The Hambone and the Heart’ 65
‘The Little Ghost who Died for Love’ 65
The Shadow of Cain (1947) 90, 271
The Sleeping Beauty (1924) 27, 60, 61, 62–64, 66, 69, 266
Three Poems of The Atomic Age (1947) 90, 271
Troy Park (1925) 60, 61
Wheels (1916–21) 17, 20, 21, 259
Six Point Group, the 15, 44
Smile, Smile, Smile, Smile (ed. Fell et al., 1980) 142, 144, 281
Smith, Cicely Fox 12
Smith, Janet Adam 23
Smith, Stan 191
Smith, Stevie 5, 6, 8, 23, 24, 27, 44, 54, 87, 92, 94, 95, 97, 99, 100–01, 107, 109–24, 142, 153, 154, 158, 172, 195, 212, 233–34, 235, 263, 341
‘A British Song’ 118
‘A Dream of Comparison: after reading Book Ten of Paradise Lost’ 119–20, 276
A Good Time Was Had By All (1937) 109
‘A House of Mercy’ 115, 275
‘A London Suburb’ 117–18
‘A London Suburb’ (essay) 275
‘A Mother’s Hearse’ 120, 276
‘A Turn Outside’ (radio play) 110, 275
‘Angel Boley’ 111
‘Behind the Knight’ 122, 276
‘Books, Plays, Poems’ 114–15, 275
‘Child Rolandine’ 113, 115, 275
‘Childhood and Interruption’ 122, 276
Collected Poems (1975) 260, 265, 275
‘Cool As a Cucumber’ 117, 275
‘Deeply Morbid’ 115–16, 275
‘Do Take Muriel Out’ 94
‘Drugs Made Pauline Vague’ 117, 275
‘Fafnir and the Knights’ 121, 276
‘Freddy’ 112, 275
‘Full Well I Know’ 112, 275
‘Girls! Although I am a woman’ 119, 276
Harold’s Leap (1950) 110
‘How Cruel is the story of Eve’ 119, 276
‘How Do You See?’ 19, 31, 38, 39
‘I Had A Dream’ 276
‘I Rode with My Darling’ 115, 275
Ivy and Stevie (ed. Kay Dick, 1971) 112–13, 275
‘Lord Barrenstock’ 54, 265
‘Lord Mope’ 54, 265
‘Major Macroo’ 54, 265
Me Again: The Uncollected Writings (eds. Barbara and McBrien, 1988) 110, 111, 124, 193, 257, 272, 275, 276
‘Miss Snooks, Poetess’ 4, 116–17, 275
‘My Muse (1960)’ 241, 296, 297
Not Waving but Drowning (1957) 94, 96, 110, 111, 123
Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) 113–14, 275
Over the Frontier (1938) 112, 119, 275, 276
‘Poems in Petticoats’ 272
‘Pretty’ 117, 275
Scorpion and Other Poems (1972) 110
Selected Poems (ed. Hartley, 1962) 110, 275
‘Silence’ 123, 276
sketches of 110, 111
‘So To Fatness Comes’ 112, 275
Some are More Human than Others (sketchbook) 110
‘Souvenir de Monsieur Poop’ 23, 260
Stevie Smith: A Selection (ed. Lee, 1983) 110, 193, 276, 296, 297
Tender Only to One (1938) 23
‘The After-thought’ 276
‘The Bishops of the Church of England’ 54, 265
‘The Deserter’ 115
‘The English’ 118
‘The English Visitor’ 118
The Frog Prince (1966) 110
‘The Hostage’ 118
‘The Passing Cloud (from the Royal Bethlehem Hospital)’ 123, 276
‘The Queen and the Princess’ 122
‘The River God’ 94
‘The Small Lady’ 120–21, 276
‘The Stroke’ 115
‘The Wedding Photograph’ 118–19, 275
‘The Word’ 114, 275
‘To Carry the Child’ 115, 275
‘Valuable’ 111, 275
‘Voices against England in the Night’ 54, 265
‘Votaries of Both Sexes Cry First to Venus’ 117, 275
Smyth, Ethel 56
social reforms 43, 45, 46
socialism/socialist ideals 20, 24, 44
sonnet, the 3, 12, 21, 40, 41, 48, 71, 72, 187
Spalding, Frances 120–21, 124, 275
Spalding, Helen 45, 87
Spark, Muriel 342
Spender, Stephen 45, 264
Squire, J. C. (A Book of Women’s Verse ed., 1921) 14, 258
Stainer, Pauline 186, 227, 230, 231–32, 238, 244, 342
‘Quanta’ 238, 294, 296
Sighting the Slave Ship (1992) 295
‘The Ballad of the Abbot’s Fish Pond’ 298
‘The Ballad of the Lock-Keeper’s Daughter’ 298
The Honeycomb (1989) 298
‘The Ice Pilot Speaks’ 238, 296
The Ice Pilot Speaks (1994) 294, 296
The Lady and the Hare: New and Selected Poems (2003) 294, 295, 296, 298
‘Woman Holding A Balance’ 231–32, 295
Stanley-Wrench, Margaret 24, 342
Stein, Gertrude 8, 22, 58, 66, 69, 78, 123, 162, 259, 267
Stevenson, Anne 4, 5, 87, 95, 97, 99, 102, 125, 136, 137, 138, 172, 173, 174, 183, 212, 240, 244, 246–47, 297, 342
‘Arioso Dolente’ 246–47, 298, 299
Bitter Fame (1989) 174
Collected Poems 1955–1995 (1996) 103, 174, 276, 279, 285
Correspondences (1974) 105, 274
‘Defending the Freedom of the Poet/Music Under the Skin’ 299
Enough of Green (1977) 105, 276
Granny Scarecrow (2000) 299
‘Poem for a Daughter’ 285
‘Purifying the Cistern’ 297, 299
‘The Fiction Makers (i.m. Frances Horovitz)’ 174, 285
‘The Price’ 125, 132–33, 276
‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ 279
‘The Victory’ 137, 279
Travelling Behind Glass (1974) 105, 279
‘Waving to Elizabeth’ 174
‘Writing as a Woman’ 131, 132, 274, 278, 279
Still, Dorothea (Poems of Motherhood,) 259
Stopes, Marie 13
Storey, Mark 123, 276
Stott, Mary 95, 272
Stuart, Muriel 8, 17–18, 83, 342
‘Christ at Carnival’ 51
‘Gay Girl to Good Girl’ 83, 270
‘In the Orchard’ 83
In the Orchard: Selected Poems (2000) 270
‘Mrs Effingham’s Swan Song’ 83, 270
‘Mrs Hamilton’ 83
Selected Poems (1927) 18, 264
‘The Bastard’ 83, 270
‘The Father’ 48, 264
Sulter, Maud 181, 343
Sweetman, Elinor 12
Tadema, Laurence Alma 12
Taylor, Georgina 91, 271
Taylor, Rachel Annand 12, 22
Teasdale, Sara 71
The State of Poetry Today (survey conducted by New Poetry) 102, 273
Thurley, Geoffrey 125, 130, 277
Thwaite, Anthony 96–97, 272
Time and Tide 16, 20, 25, 77, 82, 259, 265, 268
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) 8, 9, 63, 261, 266
‘The Poetry of Women’ 14, 19
Tollemache, the Hon. Grace 12
Tompkins, Jane 279
Tonks, Rosemary 87, 97, 102, 154, 343
Iliad of Broken Sentences (1967) 155
Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms (1963) 155, 283
The Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas’ 155–56, 283
Toulson, Shirley 96
Travers, Rosalind 12
Tree, Iris 20, 21, 26, 48, 58, 343
The Marsh Picnic (1966) 260
Tsvetayeva, Marina 183, 244
Tynan, Katherine 12, 17, 30, 46, 343
Underhill, Evelyn 22
vernacular, the 6, 77, 117, 171, 189, 212, 215, 217
vers libre see ‘free verse’
verse drama 43, 51, 257–58
Vogue 13, 61, 266
Vorticists 9, 66, 267
Voth Harman, Karin 279
Waddell, Helen 87
Wade, Steven 121, 276
Wain, John 150, 282
Wallace, Diana 125, 276
Walsh, Catherine 343
Wandor, Michelene 87, 101, 105, 140, 146, 343
‘Afterword’ (Touch Papers, 1982) 280
‘Love Poem’ 281
‘Lullaby’ 143–44, 281
‘Masks and Options: An Introduction’ (On Gender and Writing, ed., 1983) 280
‘Some Male poets’ 152
The Body Politic: Women’s Liberation in Britain (ed., 1972) 280
war 6, 25, 27, 45, 85, 89, 90–91, 101, 184
First World (Great) War 8, 13, 17, 46–48, 80
Second World War 4, 25, 45, 48–52, 88, 117
Spanish Civil War 45, 50
war poetry 8, 17, 18, 25, 44, 46, 56
Ward, Geoffrey 156
Warner, Marina 232, 233, 295
Warner, Sylvia Townsend 5, 8, 21, 22, 24, 26, 36, 44, 45, 48–49, 57, 71, 76, 87, 96, 134, 257, 344
‘Benicasim’ 50, 265
‘Drawing You Heavy With Sleep’ 78, 268
Opus 7 (1931) 45, 53, 265
‘Road 1940’ 48–49, 53, 264
‘The Absence’ 76, 268
The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (ed. Harman, 1994) 49, 264
The Espalier (1925) 77
‘The Rival’ 77, 268
‘The Way By Which I Have Come’ 264, 265
Time Importuned (1928) 77
Whether a Dove or a Seagull (with Valentine Ackland, 1933) 24, 78, 268
‘Women as Writers’ 49, 88, 264, 265, 271
Warner, Val 344
Watson, Rosamund Marriott 12
Waugh, Patricia 95, 272
Weaver, Harriet Shaw 16
Wellesley, Dorothy 8, 16, 19, 22, 24, 26, 30, 89, 344
‘Milk Boy’ 49, 264
Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley (1949) 264
Wheels (1916–21) see Sitwell, Edith
Whistler, Theresa 30, 260
Wickham, Anna 2, 3, 6, 8, 16, 22, 26, 66, 71, 78–81, 212, 260, 344
‘Definition’ 79, 269
‘Divorce’ 80, 269
‘Examination’ 79, 269
Fragment of an Autobiography 80, 81, 269
‘Laura Grey: died June 1914, in Jermyn Street’ 54, 265
‘Notes for a Lecture’ 265
‘Return of Pleasure’ 78–79
‘School for Mothers’ (lecture) 54, 265
Selected Poems (introd. Garnett, 1971) 269
‘Suppression’ 81, 269
‘The Angry Woman’ 81, 269
The Contemplative Quarry (1915) 54, 265, 269
‘The Happy Mathematician’ 81
The Man with a Hammer (1916) 17, 269
‘The Marriage’ 80, 269
‘The Pugilist’ 81
‘The Revolt of Wives’ 80, 269
‘The Sick Assailant’ 81, 269
‘The Sportsman’ 81
‘The Town Dirge’ 54, 265
‘The Wife’ 79–80, 269
The Writings of Anna Wickham (ed. Smith, 1984) 54, 78, 257, 265
‘Woman and Artist’ 2, 81, 269
Wicks, Susan 176, 345
‘Dispersal’ 299
The Clever Daughter (1996) 299, 300
Wills, Clair 154, 199–200, 202, 251, 282, 283, 289, 300
Willy, Margaret 87, 96, 345
Wilson, Elizabeth 271
Wingfield, Sheila 8, 25, 87, 91, 96, 173, 277, 345
A Kite’s Dinner: Poems 1938–1954 (1954) 96, 271, 277
Beat Drum, Beat Heart (1946) 52, 91, 127, 271, 277
Collected Poems (1983) 193, 265
Winning, Joanne 198, 289
women poets
Anglo-American 4, 21–22
Asian-British 4, 186, 204
black/black British 4, 171, 181–83, 200, 205
Caribbean 87, 204, 205, 205–06, 225–26
Irish 4, 176–79, 186, 206, 207, 223–24
Scottish 4, 171, 179, 207, 208, 224–25
Southern Irish 178
‘Ulster’ 178
Welsh 4, 180–81, 206, 207
Women Writers Suffrage League 9, 34
women’s anthologies 5, 7
(Liberation) Movement 5, 85, 86, 95, 128, 131, 139, 140, 142, 144, 282
publishing initiatives 4, 7, 16, 23, 86, 101
rights 7, 9, 13, 41, 55–57
suffrage/suffragism 5, 7, 34, 43, 55, 56
Wood, Ursula (Vaughan Williams) 87
Woods, Margaret L. 12–13, 345
(Collected Poems 1914) 12
Woolf, Virginia 30, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 52, 119, 190, 260, 261, 263, 298
A Room of One’s Own (1929) 29, 32, 36, 49, 178, 260, 261, 263, 298
Hogarth Press 16
Living Poets series 16, 39
‘The Leaning Tower’ 260, 263, 265
Wylie, Elinor 25, 71
Yeats, W. B. 9, 24, 243, 258, 260
Zanditon, Barbara 281