Table of Contents: “…The power of matter in the English Revolution -- Marvell, Winstanley, and the natural history of the green age -- Marvell and the action of virginity -- Chaos, creation, and the political science of Paradise lost -- Milton and the mysterious terms of history -- Margaret Cavendish and the gendering of the vitalist utopia -- Conclusion : Adamant liberals : the failure of the matter of revolution.…”

Table of Contents: “…A bed of one's own : Margaret Oliphant /…”

Table of Contents: “…The incandescent home : Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin --…”

Table of Contents: “…"Building castles in the air": Margaret Cavendish and the anxieties of monumentality --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Adoption as national fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in heaven and Margaret Laurence's The diviners /…”

Table of Contents: “…Romance and Victorian autobiography : Margaret Oliphant, Edmund Gosse and John Ruskin's "needle to the north" /…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from law to practice : women, resistance, and writing -- Husbands and sons : Margaret Paston's letter-writing -- Margaret Beaufort's literate practice : service and self-inscription -- Children of God : women Lollards at Norwich -- Reading at Syon Abbey -- Conclusion : medieval women authors?…”

Table of Contents: “…Wilkins Freeman -- Dorothy Richardson -- Anaïs Nin -- Dilys Laing -- Margaret Walker -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner -- Muriel Rukeyser.…”

Table of Contents: “…/ John Spurr -- Satire, lampoon, libel, slander / Michael Seidel -- Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration / Margaret A. Doody -- Theatrical culture I : politics and theatre / Jessica Munns -- Theatrical culture 2 : theatre and music / James A. …”

Table of Contents: “…By and attributed to Elizabeth Cary / selected and introduced by Margaret W. Ferguson -- v. 3. Katherine Parr / selected and introduced by Janel Mueller -- v. 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…"In the reign of Queen Dick": legal fictions and the constitution of female sovereignty -- The royal crown and the laurel crown: gendering sovereign subjects and professions -- "From the humblest of authors to one of the greatest": the Queen and Dickens's failure of masculinity -- Womanizing sovereignty: Queen Victoria and the Victorian queen of poetry -- "The grandest trade of all": professional exchanges between the Queen and Margaret Oliphant.…”

Table of Contents: “…A Tabernacle for the Sun (1653) / John Rogers -- Letters (1653) / Dorothy Osborne -- Strange and Wonderfull Newes from White-Hall (1654) / Anna Trapnel -- A Message from God, By a Dumb Woman (1653/4) / Elinor Channel -- To the Priests and People of England we Discharge our Consciences, and Give them Warning (1655) / Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole -- Nature's Pictures, Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life (1656) / Margaret Cavendish -- The Learned Maid; or, Whether a Maid may be a Scholar? …”

Table of Contents: “…'Intercourses of friendship': gender, conversation, and social performance -- Markets and thresholds: conversation as spatial practice -- Speaking to God with 'a cloven tongue': The Sidney-Pembroke Psalter -- Conversational games and the articulation of desire in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and Shakespeare's Love's labour's lost -- 'The language of friendship and conversation': Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's conversational alliances -- The civil conversations of Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson.…”

Table of Contents: “…Character of Hamlet's Mother -- Margaret Mead and the question of woman's biography -- Freud's daughters -- Vera Brittain's Testament of experience -- Winifred Holtby -- Virginia Woolf and James Joyce -- Virginia Woolf in her fifties -- What was Penelope unweaving? …”

Table of Contents: “…--The poets of the 'eighties, by Margaret L. Woods.--The poetry of Owen Meredith, by the Earl of Lytton.…”

Table of Contents: “…A woman's place: Olive Schreiner -- The mother of confusion: Gertrude Stein -- Sex, lies, and thirty-five thousand pages: Anaïs Nin -- The strong woman: Mae West -- A study in scarlett: Margaret Mitchell -- A society of one: Zora Neale Hurston -- A perfect lady: Eudora Welty -- The rage of Aphrodite: Marina Tsvetaeva -- Twilight of the Goddess: Ayn Rand -- Memoirs of a revolutionary: Doris Lessing -- Hearts and minds: Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy.…”

Table of Contents: “…Learning and virtue : Margaret More Roper -- A challenge to authority : Anne Askew -- Building the city : women writers of the Reformation -- Piety and poetry : Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Colville, Rachel Speght -- The divine poet : Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke -- The making of a female hero : Joanna Lumley and Elizabeth Cary -- The feminization of praise : Aemilia Lanyer -- Heroic virtue : Mary Wroth's Urania and Pamphilia to amphilanthus -- Redeeming Eve : defenses of women and mother's advice books.…”

Table of Contents: “…Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden -- Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost -- Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century -- Maternity, marriage, and contract : Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and disorder -- The two faces of Eve : gendering knowledge and the "new" science in Paradise lost and Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world -- Rewriting creation : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd and Paradise lost -- Spaces and traces of the garden story in Aphra Ben and Mary Astell : mapping female subjectivit(ies) through patriarchialist discourse -- Conclusion : influencing traditions of interpretation.…”

Table of Contents: “…Exemplary women. 2. Margaret Mead and the question of woman's biography -- 3. …”

Table of Contents: “…Poetic "making" and moving the soul / Margaret Healy -- 10. Shakespearean pain / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Afterword: Senses of an ending / Bruce R. …”

Table of Contents: “…Daniel -- Naming names : Steele and Swift / Paul Hyland -- The English Swift/the Irish Swift / Robert Phiddian -- 'They sate in counterview' : Anglo-Irish verse in the eighteenth century / Bryan Coleborne -- Irish exiles, revolution and writing in England in the 1790s / Alan Booth -- William Carleton : the Lough Derg exile / Margaret O'Brien -- Making history : John Mitchel and the Great Famine / Graham Davis -- Oscar Wilde : quite another thing / Neil Sammells -- Yeats, childhood and exile / Declan Kiberd -- 'A voice in directing the affairs of Ireland' : L'Irlande libre, The Shan Van Vocht and Bean na h-Eireann / C.L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Nussbaum -- Women's status as legal and civic subjects: "a worse condition than slavery itself" / Gillian Skinner -- Women in families: the great disinheritance / Ruth Perry -- Women and the business of print / Paula McDowell -- Women readers: a case study / Jon Fergus -- (Re)discovering women's texts / Isobel Grundy -- Women and the rise of the novel: sexual prescripts / Ros Ballaster -- Women poets of the eighteenth century / Margaret Anne Doody -- Women and the theatre / Angela J. …”

Table of Contents: “…/ Angela Phillips -- Women in newspapers / Mary Stott -- On the edge / Irving Weinman -- The dialogue of gender / Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove -- Imagination and gender / Pam Gems -- Art and reason / Eva Figes -- A woman writer / Margaret Drabble -- Me and my shadows / Fay Weldon.…”

Table of Contents: “…Women's poetry and the Tudor-Stuart system of gift exchange / Jane Donawerth -- "More than feminine boldness" : the gift books of Esther Inglis / Georgianna Ziegler -- Patronage and class in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum / Mary Ellen Lamb -- The education of a prince(ss) : tutoring the Tudors / Kathi Vosevich -- "When riches growes" : class perspective in Pembroke's Psalmes / Margaret P. Hannay -- Queen, lover, poet : a question of balance in the sonnets of Mary, Queen of Scots / Mary E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Wragge goes into custody / Deirdre David -- Fictions of feminine voice : antiphony and silence in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Henry James and the uses of the feminine / William Veeder -- Gesturing toward an open space : gender, form, and language in E.M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) -- Orinda herself: Katherine Philips (1631-64) -- Anne Kiligrew (1660-85) -- Mary Astell (1668-1731) -- Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710) -- Jane Barker (1652-1727?) …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster -- Nineteenth-century juvenilia: a survey / Christine Alexander -- Play and apprenticeship: the culture of family magazines / Christine Alexander -- What Daisy knew: the epistemology of the child writer / Juliet McMaster -- Defining and representing literary juvenilia / Christine Alexander -- Jane Austen, that disconcerting 'child' / Margaret Anne Doody -- Endless imitation: Austen's and Byron's juvenilia / Rachel M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Bruce Arnold ; Introduction ; John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-90) ; Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-81) ; Charlotte Grace O'Brien (1845-1909) ; Emily Lawless (1845-1913) ; John Keegan Casey (1846-70) ; Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) ; Richard Dowling (1846-98) ; Michael Davitt (1846-1906) ; Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928) ; Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1928) ; Bram Stoker (1847-1912) ; Frances Isabel (Fanny) Parnell (1848-82) ; May Laffan (c. 1849-1916) ; Margaret Brew (?1850-?) ; Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) ; William O'Brien (1852-1928) ; Canon Sheehan (1852-1913) ; George Moore (1852-1933) ; Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852-1932) ; Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) ; Percy French (1854-1920) ; Sarah Grand (1854-1943) ; (George) Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ; Jane Barlow (1857-1917) ; Edith Œnone Somerville (1858-1949) and Martin Ross (Violet Martin) (1861-1915) ; Rose Kavanagh (1859-91) ; Edward Martyn (1859-1923) ; Katharine Tynan (1859-1931) ; George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Bright, Née Dunne) (1859-1945) ; Anna Margaret (Amanda) McKittrick Ros (1860-1939) ; Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) ; Shan F[adh] Bullock (1865-1935) ; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ; Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus, née Johnson) (1866-1902) ; George W. …”

Table of Contents: “…Egerer -- Blake and the flaxmans / Margaret R. Lowery -- The structure of romantic nature imagery / William K. …”

Table of Contents: “…Pollak -- The female alcoholic in Victorian fiction : George Eliot's unpoetic heroine / Sheila Shaw -- Afro-American women poets of the nineteenth century / Rennie Simson -- Jane Austen's mediative voice / Alison G. Sulloway -- Margaret Fuller's Woman in the nineteenth century : the feminist manifesto / Marie O. …”

Table of Contents: “…No use telling me this isn't a story] ; Spelling ; Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood (1939-- ) -- My man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara (1939-- ) -- A voyage to Cythera / Margaret Drabble (1939-- ) -- The company of wolves / Angela Carter (1940-- ) -- [in the place where] ; The common women ; II. …”

Table of Contents: “…Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614-1702): Women's Speaking Justified (1666) -- 5. …”

Table of Contents: “…Malcolmson -- Questioning gender, war, and the 'Old Lie': the military expertise of Margaret Cavendish / J. Wright -- Women, civil war, and empire: the politics of translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace / M. …”