单词 | women's fiction |
释义 | > as lemmaswomen's fiction women's fiction n. fiction written by or for women, esp. as exemplifying themes or ideas perceived to be of interest to women. Π 1902 Dietetic & Hygienic Gaz. Jan. 58/2 If the husband in women's fiction continues to go from bad to worse, as rapidly as he has been doing of late years, he bids fair to soon occupy the place once held by the eighteenth century villain. 1984 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 6 Apr. b3 Today all women's fiction begins where Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke left off: contemplating the conjunctions of the private and public self, grappling with the social responsibilities inherent in both. 1998 Independent 18 May i. 17 (heading) Awards such as the Orange Prize for women's fiction create a ghetto mentality, its critics carp. < as lemmas |
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