Introduction Sonya Stephens
1. Female voices in convents, courts and households: the French middle ages Roberta L. Krueger
2. To choose ink and pen: French Renaissance women's writing Cathleen M. Bauschatz
3. Altering the fabric of history: women's participation in the classical age Faith E. Beasley
4. The eighteenth century: women writing, women learning Jean Bloch
5. Eighteenth-century women novelists' genre and gender Martin Hall
6. The 19th century: shaping women Rosemary Lloyd
7. 1900-1969: writing the void Alex Hughes
8. From order to adventure: women's writing since 1970 Leslie Hill
9. Changing the script: women and the rise of autobiography Michael Sheringham
10. Women poets of the twentieth century Michael Bishop
11. Voicing the feminine: French women playwrights of the twentieth century Mary Noonan
12. Feminist literary theory Judith Still
Bibliography of women writers and their work.
