Dedication

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-ix

List of illustrations

pp x-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-16

PART I - HISTORY AND THE PRESENT

pp 17-18

1 - Anna Jameson and the use of picturesque history

pp 19-44

2 - Hannah Lawrance and the claims of women's history

pp 45-70

3 - Margaret Oliphant and the lessons of eighteenth-century history

pp 71-94

PART II - LITERATURE, ART AND LIFE

pp 95-96

4 - Anna Jameson, cultural authority and public moralism

pp 97-127

5 - Beautiful and useful arts in Hannah Lawrance's cultural criticism

pp 128-154

6 - Marian Evans's cultural criticism in the context of women's public moralism

pp 155-174

PART III - CHANGE AND CONTINUITY FROM THE FIN-DESIÈCLE TO MODERNITY

pp 175-176

7 - Eliza Lynn Linton and feminism at the turn of the century

pp 177-191

8 - Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and women's rights at the turn of the century

pp 192-206

9 - Virginia Woolf's common reader and her social criticism

pp 207-227

The contexts of conclusions

pp 228-230

Bibliography

pp 231-278

Index

pp 279-288