Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Janet WOLFF: Foreword
Teresa GÓMEZ REUS and Aránzazu USANDIZAGA: Introduction
Early Escapes into Public Spaces
Lucy BENDING: Falling Over the Banister: Harriet Martineau and the Uneasy Escape from the Private
Efterpi MITSI: Private Rituals and Public Selves: The Turkish Bath in Women’s Travel Writing
Cathleen J. HAMANN: Ladies on the Tramp: The Philanthropic Flâneuse and Appropriations of Victorian London’s Impoverished Domesticity
Women on Display
Anna DESPOTOPOULOU: “The Abuse of Visibility”: Domestic Publicity in Late Victorian Fiction
Anne-Marie EVANS: Public Space and Spectacle: Female Bodies and Consumerism in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth
Janet STOBBS: Tracing the Female Triptych of Space: Private, Public, and Power Strongholds in Gertrude Atherton’s Patience Sparhawk and Her Times and F. Tennyson Jesse’s A Pin to See the Peepshow
Approaching the City
Valerie FEHLBAUM: Paving the Way for Mrs Dalloway: The Street-walking Women of Eliza Lynn Linton, Ella Hepworth Dixon and George Paston
Melinda HARVEY: Dwelling, Poaching, Dreaming: Housebreaking and Homemaking in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Ma Lourdes LÓPEZ ROPERO: Colonial Flâneurs: the London Life-writing of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing
Conquering the Spaces of War
Teresa GÓMEZ REUS and Peter LAUBER: In a Literary No Man’s Land: A Spatial Reading of Edith Wharton’s Fighting France
Laurel FORSTER: Women and War Zones: May Sinclair’s Personal Negotiation with the First World War
Aránzazu USANDIZAGA: Expanding the Private and Public Spaces of War: Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth
Transformations in Nature
Stephen E. HUNT: Friends of our Captivity: Nature, Terror and Refugia in Romantic Women’s Literature
Lilace MELLIN GUIGNARD: Public Land and Private Fears: Reclaiming Outdoor Spaces in Gretchen Legler’s Sportswoman’s Notebook
Negotiating the City
Kirsten BARTHOLOMEW ORTEGA: Adrienne Rich’s City Poetry: Locating a Flâneuse
Sara SULLIVAN: Writing Inside and Outside: Eavan Boland’s Poetry of the Domestic Space
Janet FLOYD: Concluding Remarks
Index