"With books such as Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction (1978), Women???s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America (1978), Shakespeare???s Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets (1975), A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bront?? to Lessing (1977), these scholars rewrote literary history by resurrecting neglected women writers and postulating an independent" . . . .