This Element examines women warriors as vehicles of mobilisation. It argues that women warrior figures from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War are best understood as examples of 'palimpsestic memory' and of 'travelling memory'.
While Swift may have chosen to overlook the travails of Lemuel Gulliver's wife Mary, Alison Fell imagines a life for her, and takes us on an adventure of her own.
" ... a magical, voluptuous novel ... about an imaginary eleventh-century Japanese writer."--Back cover.