Jane Rule Summary

Jane Rule writes disciplined, tightly organized, nonautobiographical novels which are concerned much more with character and theme than with plot. Her novels are intellectual, though not very difficul... Read more

Critical Essay by Christopher Salvesen Reno, Nevada is the setting for a first novel which is a convincing example of its kind: The Desert of the Heart develops a moral situation until a decision is ... Read more

Critical Essay by Sandra Martin In her reader Lesbian Images, Jane Rule, herself a professed and practising lesbian, attempts to debunk the time-honoured theories that homosexuality is a sin and/or a... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Brennan The structure of [The Young in One Another's Arms] is untidy because it tracks erratically in pursuit of the disorganized lives of a large number of character... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly ["Contract with the World"] is a very fine novel, the third by the author of "The Desert of the Heart." It is an ambitious work focusin... Read more

Critical Essay by Catherine Ross Contract with the World, Jane Rule's fifth novel, begins where the education novel usually leaves off, with its characters newly launched into their various ca... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Miss Rule shows talent in setting [the scene of The Desert of the Heart], with its neon nights and torpid days in the huge desert, but becomes painfull... Read more

Critical Essay by Jody Haberland [This Is Not for You, a] sensitive yet almost documentary account of the college and early adult life of a woman, is unsettling because of its precarious balance betw... Read more

Critical Essay by Michele M. Leber If lesbianism were accepted as just another way of loving—and if lesbian writers were not always taken in a sexual context—[Lesbian Images] would not ... Read more

Critical Essay by Victoria Glendinning [Lesbian Images] begins with a brief history of Miss Rule's discovery of her own lesbianism, which is extremely interesting; she is generous, honest, and... Read more