Travelling in Women's History with Michèle Roberts's Novels: Literature Language and Culture
is a journey to discover Roberts's work as a feminist writer novelist and memoirist. An
overall analysis and detailed overview of Michèle Roberts's novels first provide the reader
with a study of Roberts's rewriting of stories that have been inspired by historical
mythological and religious women who gain a voice in her fiction. Not only will the content of
Roberts's novels be explored but also its connection to form as this feminist writer has
always linked body to language. Second the book analyses personal and public discoveries in
Roberts's memoir Paper Houses: A Memoir of the '70s and Beyond (2007). The personal
professional and political journeys the writer-protagonist strolls in London will be part of a
feminist culture and language that the memoirist preserves in her autobiography. Finally two
conversations with Michèle Roberts from 2003 and 2010 are presented in a last chapter in order
to illustrate Roberts's arguments when writing as a woman.
