This bulky (in fact, rather unwieldy) paperback of over, 2,000 pages runs from late medieval times down to contemporary writers born in the 1950s. Not only feminists will find it indispensable, though it is perhaps stronger on poetry than on prose. A mild American bias is inevitable, and even acceptable, though the editors do not appear to have heard of Somerville and Ross, and Kate O'Brien is excluded while, Edna is included. Other absentees are Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rosamond Lehmann, though Elizabeth, Bowen at least is present and correct. I also thought eight pages too little for the great Jean Rhys, especially when the poet "R.D." gets more than four times as much. Nevertheless, a more than useful anthology which covers huge and sometimes little known areas though the print is rather small.