A Literature of Their Own:
British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
Elaine Showalter

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments to the Expanded Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited
I	The Female Tradition	3
II	The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write	37
III	The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel	73
IV	Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot	100
V	Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man	133
VI	Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest	153
VII	The Feminist Novelists	182
VIII	Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement	216
IX	The Female Aesthetic	240
X	Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny	263
XI	Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists	298
XII	Laughing Medusa	320
	Index	337

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