Introduction: the lottery of marriage / Carolyn Lambert
Frances Trollope and the picaresque marriage / Carolyn Lambert
Imperfect and alternative marraiges in Charlotte Yonge's Heartsease and The clever woman of the family / Emily Morris
"Give me Sylvia, or else, I die": obsession and revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's lovers / Marion Shaw
The spectacle of "crowded" marriage in Ellen Woods's East Lynne / Frances Twinn
"Could my hero tell lies?": romance and the marriage plot in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower / Carolyn W. De La L. Oulton
Mystical nationalism and the rotten heart of empire: the tangled trope of marriage in Daniel Deronda / Meredith Miller
Margaret Oliphant on marriage and its discontents / Joanne Shattock
Mrs Henry Wood's Model men: how to mismanage your marriage in Court Netherleigh / Tamara S. Wagner
"The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect": the struggle for divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis's A flame of fire / Laura Allen
Marriage in matriarchy: matrimony in women's utopian fiction 1888-1909 / Rebecca Styler
Marriage in women's short fiction / Victoria Margree
Marriage, the march of time and Middlemarch / Marlene Tromp.