The Lost Girls : Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature)

Focuses on unjustly neglected women writers - Mary Webb and Mary Butts - who utilised occult tropes to relocate themselves culturally. This book proposes chapters that detail specific engagements with Demeter-Persephone through which to register distinct literary-cultural shifts in uses of the myth and insights into the work of particular writers.