...Brenda Murphy Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Woman, Will, and Survival: The Figure in Margaret Drabble s Carpet Brenda Murphy I find it slightly worrying. 1 mean, what is one so determined to survive for, at everyone else s expense. 1 don t know. Margaret Drabble, 1974...

... absorb­ ing is to see what some observant women have actually made of the mother-daughter tie in eight novels (or near novels), from 1915-70, in which it has centrality.3 The authors are English by birth (Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble) or by expatriate choice (Katherine Mans­ field, Jean Rhys...

... best re­ views than anything here; but Huxley and Bennett, Bedford and Drabble (1975) is a good instance of Sale s working happily on a writ­ er s oeuvre by looking at it afresh in terms of the life. In his valuations of recent criticism Mr. Sale overrates Hugh Kenner and Marvin Mudrick, treats...

..., Bedford and Drabble (1975) is a good instance of Sale s working happily on a writ­ er s oeuvre by looking at it afresh in terms of the life. In his valuations of recent criticism Mr. Sale overrates Hugh Kenner and Marvin Mudrick, treats Lionel Trilling and Rene Wellek shabbily, and does substantial...

... Drabble s The Realms of Gold, and John Fowles s Daniel Martin. The sweeping generalizations in this critical study sound like the stuff of entertaining classroom lectures which, delivered in person, would probably provoke interesting discussions, but which, in print and open to considered scrutiny, expose...