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Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. 3: Vida virld,en, 1900-1960. Elisabeth Moller Jensen et al., eds. H6ganis, Sweden. Bra Bocker. 1996. 608 pages, ill. ISBN 91-7119-260-3.
Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. 4: Pa jorden, 1960-1990. Elisabeth Moller Jensen et al., eds. Hoganas, Sweden. Bra Bocker. 1997. 597 pages, ill. ISBN 91-7119-261-1.
The Nordic Women's Literary History project, a collaborative endeavor involving more than a hundred individual contributors from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, was initiated more than fifteen years ago. The first two volumes, I Cuds namn (In the Name of God), covering the period 1000-1800, and Fadershuset (The Father's House), devoted to the nineteenth century, were published in 1993 (see WLT 69:1, p. 159). With the appearance of Vida zirlden (The Wide World) and Pa jorden (On Earth), encompassing the years 1900-60 and 1960-90 respectively, the narrative portion of the literan history is now complete (a final bibliographic volume remains). All four volumes were published simultaneously in Swedish and Danish-language versions so...