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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction - The definingsuburb; Part I Suburban visions; 1. The utopian suburb: Jerome K. Jerome,William Morris and 'the logical dream'; 2. The suburban idyll: Arthur ConanDoyle, Keble Howard, John Galsworthy; 3. Beyond the suburbs: RichardJefferies, Edward Thomas, E.M. Forster; Part II Suburban dreams; 4. Thesuburban garden: Elizabeth von Arnim and the garden romances; 5. The femininesuburb I: Women readers and romance fiction; 6. The feminine suburb II:Louise Gerard, Sophie Cole, Alice Askew, Mary Hamilton; Part III Suburbanrealities; 7. The working-class suburb: William Pett Ridge, Shan Bullock,Edwin Pugh; 8. The suburban cul-de-sac: George Gissing and H.G. Wells; 9. Thesuburban extraordinary: Arnold Bennett and G.K. Chesterton; Suburban fiction:A publication timeline; Select bibliography