Part 1 New forms of realism and the rise of early modernism, 1895-1925: the influence of psychological writings on literature; introduction to novelists, 1825-1925; entries - Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Olive Schreiner, Vernon Lee, Barbara Baynton, George Egerton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, Henry Handel Richardson, Willa Cather, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Catherine Carswell, Miles Franklin, Radclyffe Hall, Rose Macaulay, Susan Glaspell, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Anna Yezierska, Hilda Doolittle (HD), Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West. Part 2 High modernism, other experiments and the continuing development of the socio-moral novel, 1918-1925: modernism and stream of consciousness fiction; introduction to novelists; entries - Mary Ellen Glasgow, Julia M. Peterkin, Jesse Fauset, Pauline Smith, Frances Newman, Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Katharine Anne Porter, Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Djuna Barnes, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Kate O'Brien, Winifred Holtby, Elizabeth Bowen, Zelda Firzgerald, Eleanor Dark, Rosamund Lehman, Stevie Smith, Christina Stead, Kay Boyle, Anais Nin, Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell). Part 3 Neo-realism, the post-war novel, and early-post-modernist innovations, 1944-1975: the new international literatures in English; introduction to novelists, 1944-1975; entries: Anna Kavan, Jessamyn West, Martha Gellhorn, Ann Petry, Eudora Welty, Marguerite Young, Hortense Calisher, Kylie Tennant, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Smart, Jean Stafford, Margaret Walker, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jane Bowles, Leonora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Spencer, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Janet Frame, Kamal Markhandaya, Flannery O'Connor, Margaret Laurence, Harper Lee, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Edna O'Brien, Susan Sontag, Ann Quin. Part 4 Further internationalism, diversification, and experimentation, 1970-1995: post-structuralist theory and fiction; introduction to novelists, 1970-1995; entries - Meridel Le Sueur, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Jolley, Alison Lurie, Christine Brooke-Rose, Anita Brookner, Jane Gardam, Cynthia Ozick, Paule Marshall, Ursula Le Guin, Jennifer Johnston, Toni Cade Bambara, Shirley Hazzard, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Fay Weldon, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eva Figes, Miriam Masoli. Antonia Byatt. (Part contents)