This book provides a necessary critical reappraisal of one of the most challenging and subversive of nineteenth-century women writers.

Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, SueAnn Schatz,

Introduction, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, SueAnn Schatz; Part I Defining Women/Defining Men; Chapter 1 'Social Suicide - Yes': Sensational Legacies in Diana Tempest, Tamara Wagner; Chapter 2 How to be a Feminist Without Saying so: The New Woman and the New Man in Red Pottage, SueAnn Schatz; Chapter 3 'The Bad Women are Better than the Good Ones': The New Woman and Sexual Fall in the Short Fiction, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton; Chapter 4 Writing Women: Narration and Literary Culture in the Short Fiction, Christine Bayles Kortsch; Chapter 5 Cholmondeley'S Fables of Identity, Benedetta Bini; Part II Creating Identities; Chapter 6 Negotiating the Terms of Celebrity Culture: Cholmondeley's Prefaces, Linda H. Peterson; Chapter 7 'I Know that to be Untrue': Belief and Reality in the Short Fiction, Jennifer M. Stolpa Flatt; Chapter 8 Revising the Gothic: The Spiritual Female in 'The Ghost of a Chance' and 'The End of the Dream', Karen Yuen; Chapter 9 Guiding Spir it: Stella Benson's Aunt Mary, Marlene Baldwin Davis; Part III Past, Present, Future; Chapter 10 Naturalized Imperialism in The Danvers Jewels : Reworking The Moonstone, Patricia Murphy; Chapter 11 'Moth and Rust': Cholmondeley's Assessment of the Church of England, Brenda Ayres; Chapter 12 Dreams of Futurity in 'Votes for Men' and 'The Dark Cottage', Kirsty Bunting;