A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Women writing the domestic space
	Chapter 1 ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically extending domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
	Chapter 2 ‘The room I sit in’: Women’s refashioning of the drawing-room in fin-de-siècle and modernist writing
	Chapter 3 ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and depiction among women writers of the interwar years
Part II Women writing the rural space
	Chapter 4 Mountains, therapy, and the peripatetic writing space: Elizabeth Le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880s
	Chapter 5 Walking and writing the rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire landscape
	Chapter 6 Spangin’ and stravaiging: Scottish women writers and the nature of rural modernity
Part III Women writing the public space
	Chapter 7 ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s: The Story of a Modern Woman
	Chapter 8 Utopian spaces, public places: Considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Women’s Side and The More I See of Men
Part IV Women writing new interpretations of space
	Chapter 9 ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric space in nineteenth-century women’s writing
	Chapter 10 R. A. Kartini and the many faces of colonial female subject: Domestic cosmopolitanism in colonial Indonesia
	Chapter 11 Spatial and sensory aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)
Conclusion
Index