The History of British Women's Writing, 1880-1920

1. Introduction: A Revolutionary Moment
Holly A. Laird

Part I. Modern Women

2. The (Irish) New Woman: Political, Literary, and Sexual Experiments
Tina O’Toole

3.
Fin-de-Siècle Ouida: A New Woman Writing Against the New Woman?
Lyn Pykett

4. The New Woman in Wales: Welsh Women’s Writing, 1880–1920
Jane Aaron

5. British Women Writers, Technology, and the Sciences, 1880–1920
Lisa Hager

6. Mediating Women: Evelyn Sharp and the Modern Media Fictions of Suffrage
Barbara Green

7. Female Decadence
Joseph Bristow

8. Re-writing Myths of Creativity: Pygmalionism, Galatea Figures, and the Revenge of the Muse in Late Victorian Literature by Women
Catherine Delyfer

9. Venus in the Museum: Women’s Representations and the Rise of Public Art Institutions
Ruth Hoberman

10. Women’s Nature and the Neo-Pagan Movement
Dennis Denisoff

11. This Nation Which Is Not One: Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm

Holly A. Laird

12. Geographies of Self: Scottish Women Writing Scotland
Glenda Norquay

13. Modern Travel on the Fringes of Empire
Judy Suh

14. Women Writing Japan
Edward Marx

Part II. Modern Genres

15. New Women Writing Beyond the Novel: Short Stories
Margaret D. Stetz

16. Material Negotiations: Women Writing the Short Story
Kate Krueger

17. Women’s Lyric, 1880–1920
Emily Harrington

18. Vigo Street Sapphos: The Bodley Head Press and Women’s Poetry of the 1890s
Linda H. Peterson

19. Women’s Slum Journalism, 1885–1910
S. Brooke Cameron

20. Turn-of-the-Century Women Writing About Art, 1880–1920
Meaghan Clarke

21. The British Female Detective Written by Women, 1890–1920
Joseph Kestner

22. Writing Modern Deaths: Women, War, and the View from the Home Front
Bette London

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Comparative Literature, Literary History, Fiction