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From: Spectator[(review date 30 June 2001) In the following review, Maitland argues that Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage suffers from a lack of thematic focus and overall "trivial" subject material.]...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 29 August 1986) In the following excerpt, Maitland examines the weaknesses of Monkeys, noting that the novel lacks substance.] Perhaps I am getting old; surely when I started reviewing, 'first novels'...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 21 November 1986) In the following review, Maitland offers unfavorable assessment of The Madwoman's Underclothes.] When I was an undergraduate I heard Germaine Greer speak: she was indeed weird and...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 17 May 1996) In the following review, Maitland offers negative assessment of The Shadow Man.] Mary Gordon has a well established record as a novelist deeply shaped by, although rather at odds with, her...
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From: New Statesman and Society[(review date 8 July 1988) In the following review, Maitland compares Lurie's fiction to the work of Jane Austen, but faults The Truth about Lorin Jones, asserting that the book has a weak ending.] Alison Lurie is a...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 28 August 1987) In the following review, Maitland derides the plaintive tone and psychological density of the stories in Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags.] Shena Mackay has an uncomfortably accurate and...
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From: New Statesman and Society[(review date 11 October 1991) In the following review, Maitland offers positive evaluation of The Change, though finds fault in Greer's lack of practical instruction.] I am 41 years old; my menstrual cycle, which for...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedForests to the northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out of which fairy stories (or, as they are perhaps better called in...
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From: New Statesman[Maitland is an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist, who blends Christian ideals and feminist principles in her writings. She won the Somerset Maugham Award for her first novel, Daughter of Jerusalem...
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From: Spectator[(review date 20 February 1993) In the following review, Maitland calls Burchill's No Exit a poor effort in all respects.] When I was asked to review No Exit I told myself that I would like it; I would write a...
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From: Spectator[(review date 29 June 2002) In the following review, Maitland commends Brookner's exacting depiction of old age in The Next Big Thing.] One of the central themes of Brookner's novels has been 'resignation': Is it...
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From: The New Statesman[In the following essay, Maitland describes Greer's book The Change: Women, Ageing and Menopause as a remarkably informative work, nothing, however, that Greer, while providing a wealth of information and ideas, fails to...
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From: Spectator[(review date 25 March 1989) In the following review, Maitland agrees with Sontag's assessment in AIDS and Its Metaphors that society views certain diseases as more than physical ailments, but also as social issues...
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From: Spectator[(review date 6 April 1991) In the following review of Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin-de-Siècle, Maitland finds shortcomings in Showalter's emphasis on popular male, rather than female, writers and her...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 129, Issue 4502)What qualities do you need to make yourself into a loveable rogue on the model of Reggie Kray? And why do we glorify bad men while still baying for more law and order? We don't like crime; we want government to be...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 4 September 1994) In the following review, Maitland complains that Godwin's The Good Husband "is overloaded with attempts to make it a larger scale book that it is."] Gail Godwin is a good writer, but The...