| Writing Double: Women''s Literary Partnerships Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Authorship -- Collaboration -- History; Spirit writings -- Au; Although Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault announced the death of the author several decades ago, critics have been slow to abandon the idea of the solitary writer. Bette London is Chair of the English Department at the University of Rochester. She is author of The Appropriated Voice: Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster, and Woolf . |