Clemence Dane, The Women’s Side

Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University)

Ed. by Kerry Myler, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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First circulation or publication 1926

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United Kingdom (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

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Novel

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Clemence Dane C.B.E. born Winifred Ashton (1888-1965) was a middlebrow dramatist, novelist, scriptwriter, and journalist and a vocal advocate for women’s rights, holding strongly progressive views on gender-political issues. In 1926 she published

The Women’s Side,

a collection of ten of her polemical articles originally written for

Good Housekeeping

magazine

An extended critique of patriarchal culture, the book’s title is a quotation, “shout it so the woman’s side can hear!” from Rudyard Kipling’s 1910 poem, “Song of the Men’s Side”, and mirrors the aspirations of feminist paper

Time and Tide

, “to teach women to view issues from a woman’s point of view” (H. Smith 50). It received an accolade in another feminist quarter, key suffrage newspaper,

The Vote

, which…

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Citation: McDonald, Louise. "The Women’s Side". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 April 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40500, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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