Angus Wilson: A Biography by Margaret Drabble
Living like a poet, or, Hello to all that, Guardian 2 July 1995
Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour
Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith
Collected Writings on Poetry by Robert Graves
The culture hero’s vision of sameness, Guardian 16 July 1995
F. R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop
Landlocked, LRB 25 January 2001
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown
The old girl network, TLS 30 September 1977
Literary Women by Ellen Moers
The heroine as hero, TLS 14 April 1978
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems introduced by Cora Kaplan
A contrary Muse, TLS 29 September 1978
Lawrence and Women Anne Smith (ed.)
Practical ecstasies, Observer 28 January 1979
St Teresa of Avila by Stephen Clissold
Hearts of stone, Observer 27 October 1985
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner
Sisters of Sisyphus, Observer 26 January 1986
Beyond Power: Women, Men and Morals by Marilyn French
Staying outside the skin, TLS 16 October 1987
Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
Women by Naim Attallah
Woman’s whole existence, Observer 28 February 1988
Women and Love: The New Hite Report by Shere Hite
Forever black suspenders, Observer 24 January 1993
Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle and the Making of Sally Bowles by Linda Mizejewski
Right but Romantic, TLS 25 June 1993
Romanticism and Gender by Anne K. Mellor
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
News from the revolution that never was, Independent On Sunday 26 September 1993
Sexing the Millennium by Linda Grant
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous
Farewell Lady Nicotine, Observer 2 January 1994
Cigarettes are Sublime by Richard Klein
The women’s camp, TLS 15 July 1994
Article on critical theory
Paean to gaiety, LRB 22 September 1994
The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle
A record of honourable defeat, THES 17 February 1995
No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3, Letters from the Front by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
They lived for their work, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 7 January 1996
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis
The Goddess of More: Parallels between ancient novels and the new womanism, TLS 9 August 1996
The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody
Learning new titles, TLS 17 March 2000
Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar
Mother’s back, LRB 18 May 2000
What Is a Woman? and Other Essays by Toril Moi
Daringly distasteful, TLS 26 April 1974
Keats and Embarrassment by Christopher Ricks
Gay old times in Greece, Observer 1 October 1978
Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover
Victorian fun and games, Observer 24 December 1978
No Name by Wilkie Collins
Observer Magazine 24 June 1979
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
When two melt into one, TLS 22 February 1980
Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley by Nathaniel Brown
A Scribbler comes of age, TLS 23 January 1981
Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works Jerome J. McGann (ed.)
Weaving, deceiving and indecision, TLS 5 March 1982
Heroines and Hysterics by Mary R. Lefkowitz
Links in a mystic chain, Observer 23 May 1982
Lull and Bruno by Frances Yates
Ravishment related, TLS 24 December 1982
The Rapes of Lucretia by Ian Donaldson
From our spot of time, TLS 9 December 1988 Review of several books on Wordsworth including
Wordsworth’s Revisionary Aesthetics by Theresa M. Kelley
Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism by Susan M. Levin