Chapters in this book

1. Contents vii
2. List of illustrations ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROFESSION OF LETTERS AND THE WOMAN AUTHOR 13
6. 2 INVENTING THE WOMAN OF LETTERS Harriet Martineau in the Literary Marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s 61
7. 3 WORKING COLLABORATIVELY Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as Women of Letters 96
8. 4 PARALLEL CURRENTS The Life of Charlotte Bronte¨ as Mid-Victorian Myth of Women’s Authorship 131
9. 5 CHALLENGING BRONTE¨ AN MYTHS OF AUTHORSHIP Charlotte Riddell and A Struggle for Fame (1883) 151
10. 6 TRANSFORMING THE POET Alice Meynell as Fin-de-Siécle Englishwoman of Letters 171
11. 7 THE WOMAN OF LETTERS AND THE NEW WOMAN Reinventing Mary Cholmondeley 207
12. Notes 225
13. Index 281