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Of all of Moore's books, I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps his best novel" in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (ed. Ian Ousby , 1988).

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• One of the classic stream of consciousness novels set during only one day is Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway ( 1925), where preparations for a party open the floodgates of memory for the female protagonist.
• In VirginiaThe frontispiece of the first edition ( 1913) Virginia ( 1913) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. This, her eleventh, novel marked a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work she had w ( 1913See also 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Egyptian writer Muhammad Hussein Haykal publishes the first Arabic novel titled Zaynab''. Sons and Lovers by D. Lawrence is published. New Books Alc), the wife of a successful playwright is also overshadowed by her husband.
• John BraineJohn Braine ( April 13, 1922 October 28, 1986) was a British novelist. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Braine left grammar school at 16 and worked in a shop, a laboratory and a factory before becoming, after the war, a librarian. Although he wrote twelve wor's novel The Jealous GodThe Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964. Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30 year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his d ( 1964See also 1963 in literature, other events of 1964, 1965 in literature, list of years in literature. Events New Books Armageddon Leon Uris The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968 William Manchester Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl The Farm Book Jan Pfloog) is also about someone trying to get over their Christian upbringing in the face of seemingly ubiquitous hypocrisyHypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, virtues and feelings that one does not truly possess. The word derives from the late Latin hypocrisis and Greek hupokrisis both meaning play-acting or pretence. A classic example of a hypocritical act is and double standards of moralityMorality is a complex of principles based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. These concepts and beliefs are often generalized and codified by a c.
• In Bharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee (born July 27, 1940) is an Indian-American fiction writer and university professor currently teaching at the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Her novels and short stories are mainly about the immigrant experi's novel Jasmine ( 1989) there is also a woman who frequently changes her identity in order to adapt to her surroundings.
• William Shakespeare's Sonnet CXXXVIII ( 1609) ("When my love swears that she is made of truth …") sums up Mary's relationship with her second husband, Hat.
• See Heroines in literature for an overview of female protagonists.