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

Articles

Stephen Gordon, Novelist: A Re-evaluation of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, 125-139
Claudia Stillman Franks

“The Heroine of Some Strange Romance”: The Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, 141-153
Elizabeth Kowaleski

New Light on Sarah Fyge (Field, Egerton), 155-175
Jeslyn Medoff

The Old Hungarian Translation of Hrotsvit’s Dulcitius: History and Analysis, 177-187
Katharina M. Wilson

Medieval Frauenlieder: Anonymous Was a Man?, 189-200
Susan Schibanoff

Notes

Mary Astell’s Poetry, 201-202
Ruth Perry

Review Essay

Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Uses of Power, 203-209
Gloria T. Hull

Reviews

Beyond the Lighthouse: English Women Novelists in the Twentieth Century, by Margaret Crosland, 209-212
Sydney Janet Kaplan

The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel, edited and translated by Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter, 212-216
Lynn A. Higgins

Cogewea: The Half-Blood, by Mourning Dove (Hum-Ishu-Ma), 217-221
Rayna Green

H. D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet, by Janice S. Robinson; Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H. D., by Susan Stanford Friedman, 221-227
Joanne Feit Diehl

Letters

Letter from Mary Bryan and Elaine Campbell, 229

Letter from the Editors of “Signs”, 229-230