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Table of contents for A literature of their own : British women novelists from Bronte to Lessing / Elaine Showalter.

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	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

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English fiction Women authors History and criticism, English fiction 19th century History and criticism, English fiction 20th century History and criticism, Women and literature Great Britain History, Women novelists, English Biography