Afterword: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Some Personal Reflections on Researching the Literature of the 1930s

Abstract

This essay reflects on my three decades of research on the literature and culture of the 1930s and considers developments in the field, particularly the study of women's writing of this period.

Keywords:

• literature and politics
• literature of the 1930s
• women’s writing

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 See Regan 2010 for the edited conference papers.

2 Letter from Sylvia Townsend Warner to Marchette and Joy Chute, dated 8 June 1973, in Maxwell 1982: 265.