The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism

"Middlebrow" has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Aiming to rehabilitate the feminine middlebrow, Nicola Humble argues that the novels of writers such...