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24 titles for readers of Ariel by Sylvia Plath, selected for shared themes: Women Authors, Women's Studies, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

Women Authors Women's Studies English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European Poetry Women Social Science Biography & Autobiography

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Jane Austen Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels

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Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

Norma Clarke

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author

Sonia Hofkosh

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Instead of a Book Letters to a Friend

Diana Athill

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Giving Women Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture

Jill Rappoport

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Book of Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Winter Trees

Sylvia Plath

Themes: Women Authors • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers

Paul Schlueter

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#10

Desire and Domestic Fiction A Political History of the Novel

Nancy Armstrong

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#11

The Second Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#12

Searching for Jane Austen

Emily Auerbach

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#13

Woods Lanyer: Woman Poet C

Susanne Woods

Themes: Women Authors • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#14

dressed.

ThisEgg

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#15

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth A Life

Frances Wilson

Themes: Women Authors • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#16

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

Elizabeth Hodgson

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#17

Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain

Mary Burke

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#18

Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies

Lady Eleanor Douglas

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#19

Hole

Ellie Kendrick

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#20

The Muses of Resistance Laboring-Class Women’s Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796

Donna Landry

Themes: Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#21

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Women Authors • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#22

Curriculum Vitae A Volume of Autobiography

Muriel Spark

Themes: Women Authors • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#23

Seductive Forms Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740

Rosalind Ballaster

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Women’s Writing of the Early Modern Period, 1588-1688 An Anthology

Stephanie Hodgson-Wright

Themes: Women Authors • Women's Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Women Authors, Women's Studies, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh — the same threads that run through Ariel by Sylvia Plath. Among the authors featured: Janet Todd, Norma Clarke, Sonia Hofkosh, Diana Athill, and others.