This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placi

A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the earl

Viewing all of these stories together, Falke captures the richness of working-class culture, the bravery of these authors' persistence, and the fecundity of the

First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties’ literature

Though working-class women in the nineteenth century included many accomplished and prolific poets, their work has often been neglected by critics and readers i