Table of Contents:
  • 'Works in unbroken succession' : the literary career of Mary Howitt / Brian E. Maidment
  • Struggling for fame : Eliza Meteyard's principled career / Kay Boardman
  • 'Almost always two sides to a question' : the novels of Jessie Fothergill / Helen Debenham
  • 'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle / Valerie Sanders
  • 'Worlds not realized' : the work of Louisa Molesworth / Jane Darcy
  • 'One wing clipped' : the imaginative flights of Juliana Horatia Ewing / Jennifer H. Litster
  • Writing for the million : the enterprising fiction of Ellen Wood / Marie Riley
  • Behind the scenes, before the gaze : Mary Braddon's theatrical world / Valerie Pedlar
  • 'LOVE' : Rhoda Broughton, writing and re-writing romance / Shirley Jones.