Toronto: Musson, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - With a balance of reason and passion, the author assesses the feelings of women writers towards their existence as women and examines their reactions to the role society expects them to fulfil. Alice Munro called this 'a very readable, often shrewd, always happily unacademic assessment of the fiction written by women from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf.' 382 pages.