Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition by Lisa Appignanesi
Introduction to the First Edition
The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity
Infection in the sentence: the women writer and the anxiety of authorship
The parables of the cave
Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia
Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents)
Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers
Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve
Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell
A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil
A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress
The genesis of hunger, according to Shirley
The buried life of Lucy Snowe
Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision
George Eliot as the angel of destruction
The aesthetics of renunciation
A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.