Slip-Shod Sibyls - Germaine Greer

Title: Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet
Author: Germaine Greer
Publisher: Viking
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First edition, 1995
ISBN: 0-670-84914-6
Condition: Second-hand. Good. The dust jacket shows rubbing, creasing, edge wear and small tears at the spine ends and corners, with sticker residue and surface marking to the rear. The binding is intact, and the visible pages show light age-related spotting and handling marks. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Germaine Greer's study of women poets writing in English before 1900 examines how female writers were praised, exploited, dismissed and forgotten, challenging assumptions about literary neglect and the canon.

Drawing on literary history and criticism, Greer considers the circumstances in which women wrote poetry, how their work entered the marketplace, and the forces that shaped their later reputations.