Resources

Superbrands (2005).  10^th Anniversary Edition (Features Amanda Lamb, The Scottish Widow on the Cover).   London: Superbrands

Vedrenne, Elisabeth (2007).  Veuve Clicquot Yellow.  New York: Assouline

Vinnicombe, Susan and Bank, John (2003).  Women With Attitude: Lessons for Career Management.  London: Routledge. (has info. about Veuve Clicquot – the award is organised by that brand)

Binski, Paul (1996). Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation.  London: The British Museums Press

Bloom Gevirtz, Karen (2005).  Life After Death.  Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen. Newark: University of Delaware Press

Bremmer, Jan and Van Den Bosch, Lourens eds. (1995). Between Poverty and the Pyre:  Moments in the History of Widowhood.  London: Routledge

Carlson, Cindy L. and Weisl, Angela Jane (1999). Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.  Basingstoke: MacMillan

Hanawalt, Barbara A. (2007). The Wealth of Wives.  Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. Oxford University Press

Howarth, Glennys (2007).  Death and Dying: A Sociological Introduction.  Cambridge: Polity

Hufton, Olwen (1995).  The Prospect Before Her.  A History of Women in Western Europe. 1500-1800. New York: Alfred Knopf

Jalland, Pat (1996).  Death in the Victorian Family. Oxford: OUP

Levy, Allison, ed.  (2003).  Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Wheaton College, Mass.: Ashgate

Mirrer, Louise ed. (1992).  Upon My Husband’s Death: Widows in the Literature & Histories of Medieval Europe.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press

Owen, Margaret (1996).  A World of Widows. London: Zed Books

Etienne, Michel (1994).  Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin.  Aux Origines D’un Grand Vin de Champagne.  Economica (this book is in French)

Fraser, Antonia(2010).  Must You Go?  My Life with Harold Pinter.  Phoenix Books

Goldman, Albert (1988).  The Lives of John Lennon. London: Bantam Press. * Contains useful information on his widow, Yoko Ono

Hancock, Sheila (2004). The Two of Us. My Life with John Thaw.  London: Bloomsbury

Kray, Kate (2002). The Black Widow. The Life and Crimes of Linda Calvey. London: Headline

Mazzeo, Tilar, J. (2008). The Widow Clicquot.  The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled it. New York: Collins

Oates, Joyce Carol (2012).  A Widow’s Story.  Fourth Estate

Turner, Margaret May. Turner, Margaret May (1997). Silent Tears No Remorse

Turner, Elizabeth (2009).  The Blue Skies of Autumn.  London: Simon and Schuster

Bayley, John (2002). Widower’s House: The Last in the Iris Trilogy.  London: Abacus

Tropper, Jonathan (2007). How to Talk to a Widower. New York: Delacourt Press

Behn, Aphra (1689). Five Plays: The Lucky Chance, The Rover Part 1, The Widow Ranter, The False Count, Abdelazer. Intro. By Maureen Duffy. London: Methuen Drama (1990).

Bronte, Anne (1848). The Tennant of Wildfell Hall 

Bronte, Charlotte (1845).  The Professor

Defoe, Daniel (1722). The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

— (1724) Roxana

Harris, Joanne (2000). Blackberry Wine * Features a widow as its central character

Hicks, Robert (2005). The Widow of the South

Hill, Susan (1974). In the Springtime of the Year

Sidhwa, Bapsi (2006).  Water.  A Novel