Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of illustrations x
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I HISTORY AND THE PRESENT
8. 1 Anna Jameson and the use of picturesque history 17
9. 2 Hannah Lawrance and the Claims of Women’s History 45
10. 3 Margaret Oliphant and the Lessons of Eighteenth-Century History 71
11. PART II LITERATURE, ART AND LIFE
12. 4 Anna Jameson, cultural authority and public moralism 95
13. 5 Beautiful and Useful Arts in Hannah Lawrance’s Cultural Criticism 128
14. 6 Marian Evans ’s Cultural Criticism in the Context of Women’s Public Moralism 155
15. PART III CHANGE AND CONTINUITY FROM THE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE TO MODERNITY
16. 7 Eliza Lynn Linton and feminism at the turn of the century 175
17. 8 Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and Women’s Rights at the Turn of the Century 192
18. 9 Virginia Woolf ’s Common Reader and her Social Criticism 207
19. The Contexts of Conclusions 228
20. Bibliography 231
21. Index 279