British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Pleasant, easy work, -& not useless, I hope’: Harriet Martineau as a Children’s Writer of the 1840s

Chapter 3 ‘Powerful beyond all question’: Catherine Crowe’s Novels of the 1840s

Chapter 4 Women in Service: Private Lives and Labour in Mary Howitt’s Work and Wages

Chapter 5 Confronting the 1840s: Christian Johnstone in Criticism and Fiction

Chapter 6 Jane Eyre, Orphan Governess: Narrating Victorian Vulnerability and Social Change

Chapter 7 ‘I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing’: Losing the Plot in Wuthering Heights

Chapter 8 Anne Brontë: An Unlikely Subversive

Chapter 9 The Female Voice and Industrial Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton

Chapter 10 The Age of the Female Novelist: Single Women as Authors of Fiction

Chapter 11 ‘Excluded from a woman’s natural destiny’: Disability and Femininity in Dinah Mulock’s Olive and Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Daisy Chain

Chapter 12 ‘The eatables were of the slightest description’: Consumption and Consumerism in Cranford

Chapter 13 ‘There never was a mistress whose rule was milder’: Sadomasochism and Female Identity in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Chapter 14 Cultivating King Arthur: Women Writers and Arthurian Romance in the 1850s

Chapter 15 ‘[T]he work of a she-devil’: Sensation Fiction, Crime Writing, and Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll

Chapter 16 ‘[Your novel] quite gives me a pain in the stomach’: How Paternal Disapproval Ended Julia Wedgwood’s Promising Career as a Novelist