The History of British Women's Writing, 1880-1920

List of Figures.- Series Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on the Contributors.- Chronology.- Introduction: a revolutionary moment; Holly A. Laird.- PART I: MODERN WOMEN.- From the New Woman to the Suffragette:.- 1. The (Irish) New Woman: political, literary, and sexual experiments; Tina O'Toole.- 2. Fin-de-Siècle Ouida: A New Woman writing against the New Woman?; Lyn Pykett.- 3.The New Woman in Wales: Welsh women's writing, 1880-1920; Jane Aaron.- 4. British Women Writers, Technology, and the Sciences, 1880-1920; Lisa Hager.- 5. Mediating Women: Evelyn Sharp and the modern media fictions of suffrage; Barbara Green.- From the Decadent to the Queer:.- 6. Female Decadence; Joseph Bristow.- 7.Re-writing Myths of Creativity: Pygmalionism, Galatea figures, and the revenge of the Muse in Late Victorian literature by women; Catherine Delyfer.- 8. Venus in the Museum: Women's representations and the rise of public art institutions; Ruth Hoberman.- 9. Women's Nature and the Neo-Pagan Movement; Dennis Denisoff.- From the Nation to the Globe:.- 10. This Nation Which Is Not One: Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm; Holly A. Laird.- 11. Geographies of Self: Scottish women writing Scotland; Glenda Norquay.- 12. Modern Travel on the Fringes of Empire; Judy Suh.- 13. Women Writing Japan; Edward Marx.- PART II: MODERN GENRES.- From the Story to the Lyric:.- 14.New Women Writing Beyond the Novel: Short Stories; Margaret Stetz.- 15. Material Negotiations: Women writing the short story; Kate Krueger.- 16. Women's Lyric, 1880-1920; Emily Harrington.- 17. Vigo Street Sapphos: The Bodley Head Press and women poets of the 1890s; Linda Peterson.- From Journalism to the War Memoir:.- 18. Women's Slum Journalism, 1885-1910; S. Brooke Cameron.- 19. Turn-of-the-Century Women Writing about Art, 1880-1920; Meaghan Clarke.- 20. The British Female Detective Written by Women, 1890-1920; Joseph Kestner.- 21. Writing Modern Deaths: Women, war, and the view from the home front; Bette