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Introduction - cross-Channel perspectives, Clarissa Campbell Orr; MaryWollstonecraft - a problematic legacy, Pam Hirsch; a Republican answers back- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albertine Necker de Saussure, and forcing littlegirls to be free, Clarissa Campbell Orr; writing history for British women -Elizabeth Hamilton and the "Memoirs of Agrippina", Jane Rendall; politicswithout feminism - the Victorian political hostess, K.D. Reynolds; womansupportive or woman manipulative? the "Mrs. Ellis woman", Henrietta TwycrossMartin; Mary Wollstonecraft and Flora Tristam - one pariah redeems another,Maire Fedelma Cross; "saintes soeurs" and "femmes fortes" - alternativeaccounts of the route to womanly civic virtue, and the history of Frenchfeminism, Hazel Mills; Maria Rye - the primrose path, Marion Diamond;anthropological analogies - Edith Simcox and Madeleine Pelletier, FeliciaGordon; Wollstonecraft's daughters, Marianne's daughters and the daughters ofJoan of Arc - Marie Maugeret and Christian feminism in the French belleepoque, James F. McMillan.