Between Women: Women Critics on Women Writers, 189-198
Shari Benstock

Articles

A Patriarch of One’s Own: Jane Eyre and Romantic Love, 199-216
Jean Wyatt

The Madonna and the Child Wife in Romola, 217-233
Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

“The Muddle of the Middle”: May Sinclair on Women, 235-251
Diane F. Gillespie

“Untying the Mother Tongue”: Female Difference in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, 253-264
Frances L. Restuccia

Review Essays

Reading Gertrude Stein, 265-271
Catharine R. Stimpson

Must Horses Drink. or “Any Language is Funny If You Don’t Understand It,” 272-280
Ulla E. Dydo

Virginia Woolf’s Politics and Her Mystical Vision, 281-290
Louise A. DeSalvo

Reviews

Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works, by Charity Cannon Willard, 291-293
Katharina Wilson

Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, 293-295
Anne Larsen

The Whole Duty of a Woman: Female Writers in Seventeenth-Century England, by Angeline Goreau; The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires on Women, 1660-1750, by Felicity A. Nussbaum, 295-302
Susan Hastings

Marietta Holley: Life with “Josiah Allen’s Wife,” by Kate H. Winter, 302-303
Nancy Walker

(Alternative) Literary Publishing: Five Modern Histories, by Sally Dennison, 303-305
Noël Riley Fitch

A Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867, by Joseph A. Kestner; Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, 305-308
Priscilla Dorr

Notes

“The Yellow Wallpaper” and Women’s Discourse, 309-314
Karen Ford

Alternative Women’s Discourse, 315-322
Carol Thomas Neely

The Wall Behind the Yellow Wallpaper: Response to Carol Neely and Karen Ford, 323-330
Paula A. Treichler

Reading the Signs of Women’s Writing, 5-15
Shari Benstock

Articles

Figmenta vs. Veritas: Dame Alice and the Medieval Literary Depiction of Women by Women, 17-32
Katharina M. Wilson

“Women may discourse . . . as well as men”: Speaking and Silent Women in the Plays of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 33-45
Jacqueline Pearson

Writing a Self: From Aurore Dudevant to George Sand, 47-59
Kathryn J. Crecelius

Casa Guidi Windows and Aurora Leigh: The Genesis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Visionary Aesthetic, 61-68
Dolores Rosenblum

The House of Mirth: Readers Respond, 69-82
Deborah G. Lambert

Feminism and Formalism: Dialectical Structures in Marie Cardinal’s Une Vie pour deux, 83-99
Carolyn A. Durham

Two of the Weird Sisters: The Eccentricities of Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell, 101-123
Susan Hastings

Review Essay

Virginia Woolf: Access to an Outsider’s Vision, 125-136
Bonnie Kime Scott

Reviews

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915, by Sandra L. Myres; The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860, by Annette Kolodny, 136-140
A. Harriette Andreadis

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South, by Shirley Abbott; Speaking for Ourselves: Women of the South, edited by Maxine Alexander; The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Catherine Clinton; Women Writers of the Contemporary South, edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw; Making the Invisible Woman Visible, by Anne Firor Scott, 140-144
Susan Millar Williams

The Letters of Jean Rhys, edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly; Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism, by Elgin W. Mellown, 144-147
Mary O’Toole

Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine, by Verena Andermatt Conley, 147-149
Diane Griffin Crowder

One Writer’s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty, 149-151
Ruth D. Weston

Spanish-American Women Writers: A Bibliographical Research Checklist, by Lynn Ellen Rice Cortina, 151-152
Patricia N. Klingenberg

Willa: the Life of Willa Cather, by Phyllis C. Robinson, 152-154
Robert J. Nelson

A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women’s Poetry, by Deborah Pope, 155-156
Gordon O. Taylor

Letters

Letter from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, 158

Letter from Nina Baym, 158-159