The Feminist Critique: Mastering our Monstrosity, 137-149
Shari Benstock

Articles

A Speaking Sphinx, 151-154
Jane Marcus

Frankenstein and the Feminine Subversion of the Novel, 155-164
Devon Hodges

Creating the Woman Writer: The Autobiographical Works of Jane Barker, 165-181
Jane Spencer

Jane Austen’s Anti-Romantic Fragment: Some Notes on Sanditon, 183-191
John Halperin

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna’s The Wrongs of Woman: Female Industrial Protest, 193-214
Joseph Kestner

Reflections on Feminism and Pacifism in the Novels of Vera Brittain, 215-228
Muriel Mellown

Review Essay

Reading the Poet and the Poetry: Critics and Emily Dickinson, 229-233
Nancy Walker

Reviews

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: The Writer as Heroine in American Literature, by Linda Huf, 234-235
Emily Stipes Watts

Ellen Glasgow, by Marcelle Thiébaux; Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Convention, by Linda W. Wagner, 235-238
Mary E. Papke

Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes, by Andrew Field, 239-240
Ruth Weston

There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement This Century, by Dale Spender; Samantha Rastles the Woman Question, by Marietta Holley, edited and introduction by Jane Curry, 241-244
Jane Marcus

The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine De Pizan, translated by Jeffrey Richards, 244-247
Joan M. Ferrante

American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide From Colonial Times to the Present, Abridged, edited by Langdon Lynne Faust, 247-250
Nina Baym

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth, by Nina Auerbach, 250-253
Joseph Kestner

Letters

Letter from Elizabeth H. Hageman, 255

Letter from Margaret D. Stetz, 255

Letter from Katherine Kleeman and Carol Virginia Pohli, 256.

From the Editor’s Perspective, 5-6
Shari Benstock

Articles

Corinna of Tanagra and Her Audience, 9-20
Marilyn B. Skinner

Marie de France’s Ingenious Uses of the Authorial Voice and Her Singular Contribution to Western Literature, 21-41
Marjorie M. Malvern

Louise Labé’s Débat de Folie et d’Amour: Feminism and the Defense of Learning, 43-55
Anne R. Larsen

Emily Dickinson and the Self: Humor as Identity, 57-68
Nancy Walker

The Subtle Satire of Elizabeth Bowen and Mary Lavin, 69-82
Janet Egleson Dunleavy

Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon, 83-98
Lillian S. Robinson

Note

Jane Austen and Shakespeare, 99
Rhonda Keith

Review Essay

Writing the History of English Feminism, 101-106
Ruth Perry

Reviews

Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life, by Georgina Battiscombe, 107-113
Barbara Fass Leavy

Tomorrow is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936, by Anne Goodwin Jones, 113-117
Martha Chew

Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey, by Sandra Lieb, 118-121
Anna Norberg

Virginia Woolf’s “The Years”: The Evolution of a Novel, by Grace Radin; Between Language and Silence: The Novels of Virginia Woolf, by Howard Harper; All that Summer She Was Mad. Virginia Woolf: Female Victim of Male Medicine, by Stephen Trombley; The Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Oliver Bell, 121-125
Manly Johnson