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Female Itineraries: The Road to Empowerment in Letter to Sister Benedicta and The Cupboard

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This chapter considers feminism in Tremain’s second and third novels. Letter to Sister Benedicta is a second-wave feminist novel narrating in a confessional mode the journey towards self-discovery of its first-person protagonist, Ruby Constad. The Cupboard narrates the life story of suffragette and writer figure Erica March and problematizes Tremain’s own fiction, in particular her recourse to ‘made-up places’. The focus on the individual stories of her protagonists which mirror historical world events matches the feminist agenda of politicizing the personal.

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    Emilie Walezak

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Walezak, E. (2017). Female Itineraries: The Road to Empowerment in Letter to Sister Benedicta and The Cupboard . In: Rose Tremain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57129-4_3

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