List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction Joanne Shattock
1. The construction of the woman writer Joanne Shattock
2. Remaking the canon Joanne Wilkes
3. Women and the consumption of print Margaret Beetham
4. Women writing Woman: nineteenth-century representations of gender and sexuality Lyn Pykett
5. Feminism, journalism and public debate Barbara Caine
6. Women's writing and the domestic sphere Elizabeth Langland
7. Women, fiction and the market place Valerie Sanders
8. Women poets and the challenge of genre Virginia Blain
9. Women and the theatre Katherine Newey
10. Women writers and self-writing Linda Peterson
11. The professionalization of women's writing: extending the canon Judith Johnston and Hilary Fraser
12. Women writers and religion Elisabeth Jay
13. Women writing for children Lynne Vallone.