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1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorianwomen novelists Nicola Diane Thompson; 2. Marriage and the anti-feministwoman novelist Valerie Sanders; 3. Breaking apart: the early Victoriandivorce novel Anne Humpherys; 4. Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorianchildren's literature by non-canonical woman writers Alison Chapman; 5.Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question AlexisEasley; 6. Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics ofsatire Monica F. Cohen; 7. 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women ofthe 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace June Sturrock; 8.Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the femaleartist in the women's writing of the 1890s Lyn Pykett; 9. Lady in green withnovel: the economics of painting in women's writing Dennis Denisoff; 10.Ouida and the other new woman Pamela K. Gilbert; 11. Organizing women: newwoman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism Ann Ardis; 12. Shotout of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism BethSutton-Ramspeck; 13. Brave girls and strategic displacements: E. Nesbit andthe woman question Amelia A. Rutledge; 14. 'An 'old-fashioned' young woman':Marie Corelli and the new woman Annette R. Federico.