British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s

1. Introduction: Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton. 2. 'Pleasant, easy work, -& not useless, I hope': Harriet Martineau as a Children's Writer of the 1840s: Valerie Sanders. 3. 'Powerful beyond all question': Catherine Crowe's Novels of the 1840s: Ruth Heholt. 4. Women in Service: Private Lives and Labour in Mary Howitt's Work and Wages: Erin D. Chamberlain. 5. Confronting the 1840s: Christian Johnstone in Criticism and Fiction: Joanne Wilkes. 6. Jane Eyre, Orphan Governess: Narrating Victorian Vulnerability and Social Change: Tamara S. Wagner. 7. 'I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing': Losing the Plot in Wuthering Heights: Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton. 8. Anne Brontë: An Unlikely Subversive: Kristin A. Le Veness. 9. The Female Voice and Industrial Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton: Carolyn Lambert. 10. The Age of the Female Novelist: Single Women as Writers of Fiction: Sharon Connor. 11. 'Excluded from a woman's natural destiny': Disability and Femininity in Dinah Mulock's Olive and Charlotte M. Yonge's The Daisy Chain: Clare Walker Gore. 12. 'The eatables were of the slightest description': Consumption and Consumerism in Cranford: Anne Longmuir. 13.'There never was a mistress whose rule was milder': Sadomasochism and Female Identity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette: Abigail Boucher. 14. Cultivating King Arthur: Women Writers and Arthurian Romance in the 1850s: Katie Garner. 15. '[T]he work of a she-devil': Sensation Fiction, Crime Writing, and Caroline Clive's Paul Ferroll: Adrienne E. Gavin. 16. '[Your novel] quite gives me a pain in the stomach': How Paternal Disapproval Ended Julia Wedgwood's Promising Career as a Novelist: Sue Brown. 17. Adam Bede and 'the green trash of the railway stall': George Eliot and the Lady Novelists of 1859: Gail Marshall.