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A few critical references:

Castagna, Valentina. 'Shape-Shifting Tales – Michele Roberts's Monstrous Women' (Peter Lang, 2010)

Falcus, Sarah. 'Her Odyssey, Herstory in Michèle Roberts's Fair Exchange', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44, no. 3 (2003 Spring): 237-50.

Falcus, Sarah. 'Truth and Lies, History and Fiction, in Michèle Roberts's The Looking Glass', Ecloga, Spring 2002 (on-line journal) – www.strath.ac.uk/ecloga/Falcus.html

Hanson, Clare. 'During Mother's Absence: The Fiction of Michèle Roberts' in Werlock, Abby H. P. (ed. and introd.), British Women Writing Fiction (U of Alabama P, 2000). 229-47

King, Jeanette. 'Women and the Word: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible' (Macmillan, 2000) - has sections on The Book of Mrs Noah, Daughters of the House and The Wild Girl.

Luckhurst, Roger. ' "Impossible Mourning" in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the House', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 37: 4 (Summer 1996), pp. 243-60.

Neuhcrt-Kopsel, Isolde. 'Deconstructing Duality: Utopian Thought in the Concept of "Gender Blending" in Michèle Roberts's Flesh and Blood', in Beate Neumeier, ed., Engendering Realism and Postmodernism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.

Parker, Emma. 'From House to Home: A Kristevan Reading of Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the House', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41: 2 (Winter 2000), pp. 153-73.

Reitz, Bernhard. 'Virgins in the Frying-Pan: Peepholes and Perspectives in Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the House', in Beate Neumeier, ed., "Engendering Realism and Postmodernism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.

Rowland, Susan. 'Michèle Roberts's Virgins: Contesting Gender in Fictions. Re-writing Jungian Theory and Christian Myth', Journal of Gender Studies 8: 1(1999), pp. 35-42.

Rowland, Susan. 'Women, Spiritualism and Depth Psychology in Michèle Roberts's Victorian Novel', in Susan Rowland and Juliet John, eds, Rereading Victorian Fiction. London: Palgrave, 2002.

Sceats, Sarah. 'Eating the Evidence: Women, Power and Food', in Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham, eds. Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century. London: Longman, 1996.

Schabert, Ina. 'HABEAS CORPUS 2000: THE RETURN OF THE BODY' in European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics, Jan 1, 2001 v16, 87-115.
It's on Impossible Saints and Winterson's Written on the Body.

Sellers, Susan. 'Becoming Gods and Umbilical Wordbows: The New Hagiography of Michele Roberts' in her book Myth and Fairy Tale in contemporary Women's Fiction (Palgrave, 2001).

Stowers, Cath. '"No Legitimate Place, No Land, No Fatherland": Communities of Women in the Fiction of Roberts and Winterson', Critical Surveys: 1 (1996), pp. 69-79.

Vannucci, V. 'Canone e biofiction, i soggetti della storia e i nuovi mondi letterari, in F. Fantaccini, O. De Zordo (a cura di), altri canoni/ canoni altri. pluralismo e studi letterari', Firenze University Press, Firenze 2011, pp. 125-52. – http://www.fupress.com/Archivio/pdf%5C4854.pdf, (10/11).

V. Vannucci, 'La riscrittura dell'identità nelle biofictions: il dibattito critico, in O. De Zordo (a cura di), Saggi di anglistica e americanistica. Ricerche in corso', Firenze University Press, Firenze 2009, pp. 249-84. – http://www.fupress.com/Archivio/pdf%5C4118.pdf, (10/11).

 

General information:
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/roberts_life.shtml
British Council http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth109

Academic:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/people/roberts/roberts.shtml

Publishers:
http://www.virago.co.uk/virago/meet/roberts_profile.asp?TAG=
http://www.northernpublishers.co.uk/authors/Michele_Roberts

Interviews on line:
http://www.cercles.com/interviews/roberts.html
http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/micheleroberts.html

Reviews on line:
http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/reviews/michelle_roberts.htm

Learning Resources:
http://www.channel4.com/learning/main/netnotes/programid1510.htm
http://www.markedbyteachers.com/
http://www.daesan.or.kr/english/business/special_plan_01.html
http://www.eriding.net/amoore/anthology/yourshoes.htm


Other:
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=rob-123
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000035183,00.html
http://www.mslexia.co.uk/back_index.htm

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