Preface

writing and reading the "rugged realities of life"

Isobel Grundy

1-10

Introduction

feminisms and futures

Jennie Batchelor, Gillian Dow

11-20

Passing judgement

the place of the aesthetic in feminist literary history

Ros Ballaster

21-42

Free market feminism? the political economy of women's writing

E. J. Clery

43-60

Feminist literary history

how do we know we've won?

Katherine Binhammer

61-78

Anon, pseud and "by a lady"

the spectre of anonymity in women's literary history

Jennie Batchelor

79-96

Authorial performances

actress, author, critic

Elaine McGirr

97-115

Pay, professionalization and probable dominance? women writers and the children's book trade

M. O. Grenby

117-137

"There are numbers of very choice books"

book ownership and the circulation of women's texts, 1680–98

Marie-Louise Coolahan

139-157

Gender and the material turn

Chloé Wigston Smith

159-178

Archipelagic literary history

eighteenth-century poetry from Ireland, scotland and wales

Sarah Prescott

179-201

The "biographical impulse" and pan-European women's writing

Gillian Dow

203-223