Contents

1. Book info

2. About the book and how to use it

3. About the author

4. About the translator

5. Acknowledgements

6. Reviews

7. I. Main Body

   1. 1. Thinking about female literary tradition

   2. 2. Going back to the roots: Sappho as a first literary foremother

   3. 3. Virginia Woolf's Flowers on Aphra Behn's Tomb

   4. 4. Who are silly lady novelists? George Eliot dismissing some contemporary women writers and praising Charlotte Brontë

   5. 5. “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda”: Jane Austen’s vindication of Maria Edgeworth

   6. 6. Her Losses make our Gains ashamed: Emily Dickinson’s deep understanding of George Eliot

   7. 7. “Beat purer, heart, and higher, Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore.”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s tribute to George Sand

   8. 8. Modern women from the fringes: Laura Marholm’s scandalous book about women writers of her age

   9. 9. Conclusion