The literary depiction of English everyday life from Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power to the fall of New Labour in the works of Sue Townsend

Abstract

Apart from the presentation of the author and her placement in her sociocultural coordinates, the analysis of her works has turned around diferent elements arranged into two blocks: A first section regarding the most important thematic keys which deal with three concepts, namely, time, space and identity components. By studying the treatment of these elements I was able to cover a great deal of the multiplicity of variables inserted in Townsend's narrative. In turn, the study of the three of them has facilitated the extraction of a clear idea of how they all relate to each other. It is the attempt to systematize these connections which has been the greatest dificulty I had to face. A second section describing what I considered the main narrative components of Townsend's works and their analogies and references in the literary production of other authors. All this, complemented with a brief description of her method and approach to the diferent topics present in her pages.