MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and
Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited
Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History and volume eight of the
Palgrave History of British Women's Writing.