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Across Women Authors, Drama, Literary Criticism, and Juvenile Nonfiction — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit.

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Marginalized Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender — Casey Kayser

Marginalized Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Nethered Regions – an Anatomy of Mina Loy — Sara Crangle

Nethered Regions – an Anatomy of Mina Loy

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

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Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

The Gaze of the Caged Woman Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays — Ila Ahlawat

The Gaze of the Caged Woman Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

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Ben Preston Robertson

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights A Casebook — Philip C. Kolin

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights A Casebook

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

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Anatomy of a Suicide

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess — Gigi Anders

Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

STARS — Mojisola Adebayo

Mojisola Adebayo

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy On Echoes and Voices — Dorota M. Dutsch

Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy On Echoes and Voices

Dorota M. Dutsch

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

In the Land of Men A Memoir — Adrienne Miller

In the Land of Men A Memoir

Adrienne Miller

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Complicating the Female Subject Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish Women’s Inter-war Drama — Joanna Kot

Complicating the Female Subject Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish Women’s Inter-war Drama

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Eve Bites Back An Alternative History of English Literature — Anna Beer

Eve Bites Back An Alternative History of English Literature

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary — Philip C. Kolin

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

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Humble Boy A Play — Charlotte Jones

Humble Boy A Play

Charlotte Jones

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

The Binge Watcher’s Guide To The Handmaid’s Tale – An Unofficial Companion — Jamie K. Schmidt

The Binge Watcher’s Guide To The Handmaid’s Tale – An Unofficial Companion

Jamie K. Schmidt

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Three Plays — Osonye Tess Onwueme

Osonye Tess Onwueme

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

The Blue Jay’s Dance A Birth Year — Louise Erdrich

The Blue Jay’s Dance A Birth Year

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

50 Women in Theatre — Gabrielle Brooks

50 Women in Theatre

Gabrielle Brooks

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

The Art of Experience The Theatre of Marina Carr and Contemporary Psychology — Dagmara Gizlo

The Art of Experience The Theatre of Marina Carr and Contemporary Psychology

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Colonial Women Race and Culture in Stuart Drama — Heidi Hutner

Colonial Women Race and Culture in Stuart Drama

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

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Covert Technological Murder Pain Ray Beam

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

Anagrams of Desire Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film, and Television — Charlotte Crofts

Anagrams of Desire Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film, and Television

Charlotte Crofts

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Women Authors, Drama, Literary Criticism — the same threads that run through Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit. Among the authors featured: Casey Kayser, Sara Crangle, Euripides, Ila Ahlawat, and others.

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