Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 Three Women and His Art (Part One): Elizabeth Maguire’s The Open Door (2008), Emma Tennant’s Felony (2002) and Lynne Alexander’s The Sister (2012)

Chapter 4 Three Women and His Art (Part Two): Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Dictation’ (2008) and Michiel Heyns’s The Typewriter’s Tale (2005)

Chapter 5 ‘An ado about Isabel Archer’: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2009) and Kirsten Tranter’s The Legacy (2010)

Chapter 6 ‘Written in Faded Ink’: A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and John Harding’s Florence and Giles (2010)

Chapter 7 ‘The Real Thing?’: Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies (2010) and Michiel Heyns’s Invisible Furies (2012)

Chapter 8 Conclusion