A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

Acknowledgments to the Expanded EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own RevisitedIThe Female Tradition3IIThe Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write37IIIThe Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel73IVFeminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot100VFeminine Heroes: The Woman's Man133VISubverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest153VIIThe Feminist Novelists182VIIIWomen Writers and the Suffrage Movement216IXThe Female Aesthetic240XVirginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny263XIBeyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists298XIILaughing Medusa320Index337