A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing

Introduction:

Twenty years on: a literature of their own revisited

ch. 1. Female tradition

ch. 2. Feminine novelists and the will to write

ch. 3. Double critical standard and the feminine novel

ch. 4. Feminine heroines: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot

ch. 5. Feminine heroes: the woman's man

ch. 6. Subverting the feminine novel: sensationalism and feminine protest

ch. 7. Feminine novelists

ch. 8. Women writers and the suffrage movement

ch. 9. Female aesthetic

ch. 10. Virginia Woolf and the flight into androgyny

ch. 11. Beyond the female aesthetic: contemporary women novelists

ch. 12. Laughing Medusa.