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1. Introduction: Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton.2. ‘Pleasant, easy work, -& not useless, I hope’: Harriet Martineau as a Children’s Writer of the 1840s: Valerie Sanders.3. ‘Powerful beyond all question’: Catherine Crowe’s Novels of the 1840s: Ruth Heholt.4. Women in Service: Private Lives and Labour in Mary Howitt’s Work and Wages: Erin D. Chamberlain.5.  Confronting the 1840s: Christian Johnstone in Criticism and Fiction: Joanne Wilkes.6. Jane Eyre, Orphan Governess: Narrating Victorian Vulnerability and Social Change: Tamara S. Wagner.7. ‘I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing’: Losing the Plot in Wuthering Heights: Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton.8. Anne Brontë: An Unlikely Subversive: Kristin A. Le Veness.9. The Female Voice and Industrial Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: Carolyn Lambert.10. The Age of the Female Novelist: Single Women as Writers of Fiction: Sharon Connor.11. ‘Excluded from a woman’s natural destiny’: Disability and Femininity in Dinah Mulock’s Olive and Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Daisy Chain: Clare Walker Gore.12. ‘The eatables were of the slightest description’: Consumption and Consumerism in Cranford: Anne Longmuir.13.‘There never was a mistress whose rule was milder’: Sadomasochism and Female Identity in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Abigail Boucher.14.  Cultivating King Arthur: Women Writers and Arthurian Romance in the 1850s: Katie Garner.15.  ‘[T]he work of a she-devil’: Sensation Fiction, Crime Writing, and Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll: Adrienne E. Gavin.16.  ‘[Your novel] quite gives me a pain in the stomach’: How Paternal Disapproval Ended Julia Wedgwood’s Promising Career as a Novelist: Sue Brown.17.  Adam Bede and ‘the green trash of the railway stall’: George Eliot and the Lady Novelists of 1859: Gail Marshall.