Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Editor's Introduction
Note
Part 1: Secretaries and Editors
Chapter 1: M. E. Fitzgerald: Office Manager to Modernism
Note
Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Secretary and Her Professor: Alli Hytti and L. A. Puntila
From Stray to Secretary
Partners in management
'Our Great Work'
Fealty
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Jumped-up Typists: Two Guardians of the Flame
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Thanks for Penguin: Women, Invisible Labour and Publishing in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Eunice Frost (1914-1998)
Wives, Secretaries and Administrators
Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
Part 2: Politicians and Activists
Chapter 5: Backing the Family: Servilia between the Murder of Caesar and the Battle of Philippi
Background
Topics
Case Studies
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: A Flaming Soul: Maissi Erkko Fighting for Women, Finland and Family Legacy
An Islander
An Optimistic Year of Engagement
Troubled Times
Exile
Women's Rights Movement
Fight for the Family Legacy
An Abandoned Widow
The Fading Flame
Note

Chapter 9: Jeanne de Montbaston: An Illuminating Woman
Jeanne and Richard in the Records
Richard as the Anonymous Illuminator?
Invisible Women
A Medieval Selfie?
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Judith Leyster: The Artist Vanishes
The Young Prodigy
The Disappearing Woman Artist
The Re-Emerging Master
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Textiles Rubbing Us the Wrong Way: A Tour of Karin Bergöö Larsson's Acts of Fibre Resistance
Karin Bergöö Larsson
The Library Cloth
The Rose of Love
Carl's Gaze
Two Thinkers: John Ruskin and Ellen Key
Veiling Hands

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Canvases in the Attic: Four Generations of the Lane Poole Women
Note
Bibliography
Part 4: Mothers and Others
Chapter 13: Haunting Augustine: St Monnica as Mother and Interlocutor
Such a Good Little Girl: Drunk and Abused
My Mother Was a Saint, a Cook and a Philosopher
Ghost Stories: The Death of St Monnica
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 14: 'The Typist Home at Teatime': Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot's Role in Shaping T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922)
A Troubled Marriage Yet Successful Literary Partnership