Awards

• Short-listed for Essex Book Award 2014
• Shortlisted for Essex Book Award 2014.

Overview

Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.

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'This is an impressive scholarly work. Erica Brown's excellent new study spiritedly divests middlebrow writing of its pejorative associations and offers a lively and insightful analysis of Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth Von Arnim as ironists and humorists whose style, comedic technique and sophistication situate them squarely within traditions of women's writing associated with Jane Austen.' Mary Joannou, Anglia Ruskin University 'As elegant and incisive as the novels it discusses, Brown's book offers an entirely fresh reading of von Arnim and Taylor, and an authoritative account of the relationship between comedy and the middlebrow. A highly original and very engaging study.' Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde

This is an impressive scholarly work. Erica Brown's excellent new study spiritedly divests middlebrow writing of its pejorative associations and offers a lively and insightful analysis of Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth Von Arnim as ironists and humorists whose style, comedic technique and sophistication situate them squarely within traditions of women's writing associated with Jane Austen. Mary Joannou, Anglia Ruskin University

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Erica Brown

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