English is being written and read today by more people outside England than inside. This applies no less to the women writers in English across the globe who have made their unmistakable mark in English literature[s], especially in the last century. The present volume,—the second in the new projected series of Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, Studies in Women Writers in English—bears evidence to this phenomenon as the critics address women writers in English in various parts of the globe rather than concentrating on canonised mainstream authors and texts, and thus mainstream writers figure only referentially, in the margin of these critical texts, as it were. Again, understandably Indian writers take over a chunk of the space. However, the essays included in this volume cover authors from America, Canada and India, and also some general theoretical discourse regarding feminism and marginal literature. The authors discussed in this volume are Christina Rossetti of England, Emily Dickinson, Harper Lee, Lorraine Hansberry and Sylvia Plath of America, Margaret Atwood and Beatrice Culleton of Canada, and Kamala Markandaya, Kamala Das, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Githa Hariharan of India. Apart from this a wide spectrum of Indian writers have been referred to and treated in the general articles on feminist theory and practice, especially in India today, and yesterday. The sixteen essays of the volume will be found interesting as well as useful by students, teachers and scholars and will also be enjoyed by the general readers.

Table of Contents:
1. Life and Art: A Comparative Study of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson –PARTHA PRATIM DASGUPTA 2. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird: A Portrayal of Human Values –T.M.J. INDRA MOHAN 3. Look Back in Gender: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun –ANITA SINGH 4. Poetry as a ‘Therapeutic Process’: Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das –NANDINI SAHU 5. Atwood’s ‘Muse’: In the ‘[Grand]mother’s Mirror’–RAMA KUNDU 6. Kamala Markandya’s Nectar in a Sieve: A Reappraisal –SANTWANA HALDAR 7. Aesthetics of the Dance of Shiva and Imagery of Kamala Das –A.K. AWASTHI 8. Sahgal’s Female Protagonists: Storm in Chandigarh and The Day in Shadow –BEULAH RANJITSINGH 9. Man-Woman Relation in the Novels of Anita Desai–AJAY K. GHOSH 10. When Dreams Travel: ‘Writing Back’ to The Arabian Nights–MOHUA GHOSH 11. Feminist Interrogation of a Patriarchal Text: Intertextual Echoes and Departures–MOHUA GHOSH 12. Bond without Bondage: Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri –JAYDEEP SARANGI 13. The ‘New Woman’ in Post-Independence Novels: An Emerging Image –SMRITI SINGH 14. Polyphonic Voices of Indian Feminism–SHYAM S. AGARWALLA 15. Feminism Today: A Perspective –T.M.J. INDRA MOHAN ‘O, Those Extraordinary Women!’ Contributors