JOURNAL: Connecting Voices – An Introduction to Irish Women Writers’ Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940

Special issue of English Studies

Volume 104 Number 6 October 2023

‘Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. […] The Special Issue platforms the study of Irish women within collaborative sibling, spousal and other partnerships and within the context of movements, organisations, and networks. Our co-authored introduction, a product of our own feminist collaborative approach developed during the project, asserts that as the process of recovery of Irish women’s writing continues, the collaborative and networked aspects of women’s cultural productions become more central and significant. Their retrieval demands a suite of methodologies alongside a collective approach that pools resources, insights, and knowledge networks’.

Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee & Julie Anne Stevens (2023) Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers’ Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940, English Studies, 104:6, 843-864, DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2023.2243968

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CONTENTS

Special Issue: Irish Women Writers’ Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940

Guest Editors: Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee, and Julie Anne Stevens

Articles

843 Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers’ Collaborations and Networks,

1880–1940

Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee, and Julie Anne Stevens

865 “From the Editor’s Standpoint”: L.T. Meade, Alice Corkran, and Lessons on Authorship, Collaboration, and Competition

Beth Rodgers

887 “Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’ Journalism and Fiction

Tara Giddens

910 Erminda Rentoul Esler’s “Physical” and “Virtual” Networks: Women’s Activism, the Irish in London, and the Local-Colour Story

Giulia Bruna

935 Women’s Collaborative Literary Processes and Networks: Mary and Matilda Banim’s Ireland

Geraldine Brassil

956 Portrait of a Woman Writer: Friendship and Collaboration Between Jane Barlow and Sarah Purser

Tricia Cusack

980 Women Historians and Acknowledgments: Scholarly Collaboration as Expression of Authorial Self in Alice Stopford Green’s Histories, c. 1880–1916

Elise Garritzen

1002 Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local

Colour Literature

Marguérite Corporaal

1019 “All that I Am Craving Is the Talk”: Collaboration, Translation and Lady Gregory’s Workhouse Ward

James Little

1037 The Women behind the Abbey: Dolly Robinson and Irish Theatrical Networks

Nora Moroney

1055 Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933)

Natasha Remoundou

1077 Interconnections between Art and Commerce: Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958)

Deirdre F. Brady

1097 Camp Comedy and “Submerged Trouble”: Molly Keane’s Queer Collaborations

Naoise Murphy

1118 Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge’s New York Networks

Lucy Collins