1.Introduction; Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton.- 2. A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s; Margaret Harris.- 3. 'Duck him!': Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood's East Lynne; Tara MacDonald.- 4. [Tr]ains of Circumstantial Evidence: Railway 'Monomania' and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley's Secret; Andrew F. Humphries.- 5. 'There is great need for forgiveness in this world': The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and A Dark Night's Work; Elizabeth Ludlow.- 6. 'The plain duties which are set before me': Charity, Agency, and Women's Work in the 1860s; Kristine Moruzi.- 7.'[S]mothered under rose-leaves': Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton's Sowing the Wind; Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton.- 8. 'Fleshly Inclinations': The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton's Early Fiction; Tamar Heller.- 9. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards' Comic Writing in Punch; Clare Horrocks and Nickianne Moody.- 10. Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell's 'City Women'; Silvana Colella.- 11. '[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions': Silence in George Eliot's Last Decade; Fionnuala Dillane.- 12.'His eyes commanded me to come to him': Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton's 'The Man with the Nose'; Melissa Purdue.- 13. '[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-classʼ: Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood's Johnny Ludlow Stories; Alyson Hunt.- 14. 'Sinecures which could be held by girls': Margaret Oliphant and Women's Labour; Danielle Charette.- 15. 'More like a woman stuck into boy's clothes': Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat's Her Father's Name; Catherine Pope.- 16. 'I am writing the life of a horse': Anna Sewell's Black Beauty in the 1870s; Adrienne E. Gavin.- 17. Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 1870s Fiction; Janine Hatter.