Provides brief biographies of fourteen British women authors, each accompanied by a selection of critical extracts about her writings and a bibliography of works produced between 1900 and 1960.

v.1 Elizabeth Bowen -- Agatha Christie -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- E.M. Delafield -- Daphne Du Maurier -- Rumer Godden -- Radclyffe Hall -- Winifred Holtby -- Violet Hunt -- Storm Jameson -- F. Tennyson Jesse -- Pamela Hansford Johnson -- Margaret Kennedy -- Mary Lavin -- v.2 Rose Macaulay -- Olivia Manning -- Kate O'Brien -- Mary Renault -- Jean Rhys -- Dorothy M. Richardson -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- May Sinclair -- Edith Somerville Martin Ross -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Rebecca West -- Virginia Woolf.