This book is based on the conviction that the Literary Canon in English, founded on patriarchal principles, needs to be significantly revised and updated to include the name of a legion of women writers who have been unfairly neglected and marginalised up to now. The essays collected in this publication aim at shedding light on some of writing mainly between 1880-1920 them (Emily Lawless, Rosamond Jacob, L.A.M. Priestley, Edith Somerville, Martin Ross, Julia M. Crottie, Dorothy Richardson, Mary Hays, Florence Wilford, etc.) with a threefold purpose: to rescue them from oblivion, to recuperate their works for contemporary audiences, and to put them in the place of honour they deserve.

María Elena Jaime de Pablos is Senior Lecturer at the University of Almería (Spain), where she teaches English Literature. Her major research interests are postcolonial and Irish literature, with a special focus on women writers and gender issues. She is the author of La visión de la mujer irlandesa de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX en la narrativa de George Moore: una perspectiva feminista (2000), co-author of Distancias cortas. El relato breve en Gran Bretaña, Irlanda y Estados Unidos, 1995-2005 (2010) and co-editor of Nuevas perspectivas críticas en los estudios de literatura irlandesa (2003), Irish Landscapes (2003), Joyceana: literia hibernica (2005), Análisis de género en los estudios irlandeses (2007) and George Moore and the Quirks of Human Nature (2014). She is currently the general editor of Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres, an online journal on women’s studies, and a member of two research projects: “Cuerpos en tránsito 2/Bodies in Transit 2 (FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Spanish Research Agency, and Escritoras inéditas en español en los albores del siglo XX (1880-1920). Renovación pedagógica del canon literario/Unpublished Women Writers in Spanish at the Dawn of the 20th Century (1880-1920). Pedagogical Renewal of the Literary Cannon (SA019P17), funded by the Regional Government of Castile-Leon (Spain) and the European Regional Development Fund.