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