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Electronic Resources Electronic Resources Bloomsbury- related collections: http://specialcollections.lib.sussex.ac.uk Materials related to the Bloomsbury Group. Genesis: http:www.genesis.ac.uk Genesis is a women’s history resource produced collaboratively by the Women’s Library, the Archive Hub and over 200 heritage institutions. Katherine Mansfield Society: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/ Online resources for Katherine Mansfield. LION: Literature online: http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk Enables a wide variety of searches e.g. by authors within literary movements. Literary Encyclopedia: www.litencyc.com/ A reliable online encyclopedia written by scholars. Middlebrow Network: http://www. middlebrow- network.com/ AHRC- funded network of scholars working on middlebrow writing plus resource bank. Modernist Journals Project: http://www.modjourn.org/journals.html Modernist Magazines Project: http://modmags.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ These two websites con- tain invaluable resource for the study of modernism in e-magazines and journals including digital editions of magazines up to the year 1922. Orlando Project: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/orlando/ Integrated online resource for British women’s writing in the British Isles. Space Between Society: http://www.spacebetweensociety.org Inter- disciplinary society dedicated to the literature and culture of the interwar period with annual journal produced at Monmouth University. Sylvia Townsend Warner Society: http://www.townsendwarner.com Online resources for Sylvia Townsend Warner. Virginia Woolf Society: http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/ Online resources for Virginia Woolf. Women’s Library: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/ Britain’s most exten- sive library and resources centre of women’s history and literature with online catalogue. University of Bristol Theatre Collection: http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/ The University of Bristol Theatre Collection is an accredited museum and research centre dedicated to the study of British Theatre History. 291 Select Bibliography Primary sources Allan, Dot and Moira Burgess (eds), Makeshift [1928] and Hunger March [1934] (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2010). Arlen, Michael, The Green Hat (London: Collins, 1924). Benson, Stella, The Little World [1925] (Milton Keynes: Dodo Press, 2010). Bentley, Phyllis, Freedom Farewell! [1936] (London: Gollancz, 1937). ––––, O Dreams, O Destinations: An Autobiography (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962). Box, Muriel, Angels of War, in Five New Full- Length Plays for All- Women Casts (London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson, 1935). Bowen, Elizabeth, The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen [1980] (London: Vintage Classics, 1999). ––––, The Death of the Heart [1938] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962). ––––, The Heat of the Day [1949] (London: Vintage Classics, 1998). ––––, The Last September [1929] (London: Vintage, 1998). ––––, The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Virago, 1986). ––––, To The North [1932] (New York: Anchor Books, 2006). Broster, D.K., The Gleam in the North [1927] (Harmondsworth: Peacock, 1968). ––––, The Dark Mile [1929] (London: Heinemann, 1968). Butts, Mary, Scenes From the Life of Cleopatra (London: William Heinemann, 1933). Christie, Agatha, The Murder at the Vicarage [1930] (New York: Berkeley Books, 1986). Cunard, Nancy, Parallax [1925] (Cambridge: Parataxis Editions, 2001). ––––, Poems of Nancy Cunard from the Bodleian Library, ed. John Lucas (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2005). Delafield, E.M., The Diary of a Provincial Lady [1930] (London: Virago Press, 1984). ––––, The Way Things Are [1927] (London: Virago Press, 1988). Edwards, Dorothy, Rhapsody (London: Wishart and Co, 1927). Evans, Margiad, Country Dance [1932] (London: John Calder, 1978) Farrell, M.J, Mad Puppetstown [1931] (London: Virago, 1985). Ferguson, Rachel, The Brontës Went to Woolworths [1931] (London: Virago, 1988). Gibbons, Stella, Cold Comfort Farm [1932] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983). Godden, Rumer, Black Narcissus [1939] (London: Pan Books, 1994). ––––, Breakfast with the Nikolides [1942] (London: Pan, 2002). ––––, The River [1946] (London: Pan Books, 2004). H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Palimpsest [1926] (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968). ––––, Collected Poems 1912–1944 (New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982). Heyer, Georgette, The Black Moth [1921] (London: Pan, 1965). ––––, These Old Shades [1926] (London: Arrow, 1997). ––––, An Infamous Army [1937] (London: Arrow, 2001). Holden, Inez, Born Old, Died Young (London: Duckworth, 1932). ––––, Death in High Society (London: Kegan Paul, 1934). 292 Select Bibliography 293 ––––, It Was Different at the Time (London: John Lane, 1943). ––––, Night Shift (London: John Lane, 1941). ––––, There’s No Story There (London: John Lane, 1944). Holtby, Winifred, Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance [1933] (London: Virago, 1982). ––––, The Land of Green Ginger [1927] (London: Virago, 1983). ––––, South Riding: An English Landscape [1936] (London: Virago, 2000). Huxley, Elspeth, Red Strangers [1939] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006). Irwin, Margaret, Young Bess [1944] (London: Alison and Busby, 1999). ––––, The Gay Galliard: The Love Story of Mary Queen of Scots (London: Chatto and Windus, 1941). King- Hall, Magdalen, Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton [1942] (New York: Rinehart, 1946). Lehmann, Rosamond, Dusty Answer [1927] (London: Virago Press, 2000). Macaulay, Rose, Crewe Train (London: Collins, 1926). ––––, Dangerous Ages (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921). ––––, Potterism: A Tragi- Farcical Tract (London and New York: Collins, 1920). ––––, They Were Defeated [1932] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). McCracken, Esther, Living Room (London: Charles H. Fox, 1944). Mansfield, Katherine, The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, Volume 2, ed. Margaret Scott (Canterbury, NZ: Lincoln University Press, 1997). ––––, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Vincent O’ Sullivan and Margaret Scott, 5 vols (Oxford: Constable, 1984–2008). ––––, The Stories of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Anthony Alpers (Auckland: Oxford University Press,1984). Marson, Una, The Moth and the Star (Kingston, Jamaica: published by the author, 1937). ––––, ‘Nigger’, Keys, 1: 1 July 1933: 8–9. ––––, Collected Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Charlotte Mew and Val Warner (Manchester: Carcanet, 1997). Miller, Betty, Farewell Leicester Square [1934] (London: Persephone Books, 2000). ––––, On the Side of the Angels [1945] (London: Virago, 1985). ––––, Sunday (London: Gollancz, 1934). ––––, Portrait of the Bride (London: Gollancz, 1935). Mirrlees, Hope, ‘Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees’, Times Literary Supplement, 6 May 1920: 285. Mitchison, Naomi, Cloud Cuckoo Land (London: Jonathan Cape, 1925). ––––, The Conquered (London: Jonathan Cape, 1923). ––––, The Corn King and the Spring Queen [1931] (London: Virago, 1983). ––––, We Have Been Warned (London: Constable, 1935). ––––, You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920–1940 (London: Flamingo, 1986). Mitford, Nancy, The Pursuit of Love [1945] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970). Muir, Willa, Belonging: A Memoir (London: Hogarth Press, 1968). ––––, Imagined Selves [1931] (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996). Reilly, Catherine (ed.), Women’s War Poetry and Verse (London: Virago, 1997). Rhys, Jean, After Leaving Mr MacKenzie (London: Jonathan Cape, 1930). ––––, Voyage in the Dark [1934] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000). ––––, Good Morning Midnight (London: Constable, 1939). Richardson, Dorothy, Pilgrimage, 4 vols [1938] (London: Virago, 1979). Robertson, E. Arnot, Cullum [1928] (London: Virago, 1990). 294 Select Bibliography Ryle, Elizabeth, The Three- Fold Path: A Play in Seven Scenes, in Five New Full- length Plays for All- Women Casts (London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson, 1935). Sackville- West, Vita, Passenger to Teheran [1926] (London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2007). Sayers, Dorothy, Gaudy Night (London: Gollancz, 1935). ––––, Strong Poison [1930] (Hodder and Stoughton, 2003). Shepherd, Nan, The Quarry Wood [1928] (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987). 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