ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE EXPANDED EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited I The Female Tradition II The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write III The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel IV Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot V Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man VI Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest VII The Feminist Novelists VIII Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement IX The Female Aesthetic X Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny XI Beyond the Female Aecthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists XII Laughing Medusa INDEX