A Space of Their Own

Introduction - Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker

Part 1 - Women Writing the Domestic Space

Chapter 1 - 'It is home, and I can't put its charm into words' (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

Dr. Katie Baker

Chapter 2 - 'The Room I sit in': Women's Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siecle and Modernist Writing

Dr. Emma Liggins

Chapter 3 - 'Fleece in the hedge': Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar Years

Dr. Geraldine Perriam

Part 2 - Women Writing the Rural Space

Chapter 4 - Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880s

Dr. Kathryn Walchester

Chapter 5 - Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire Landscape

Dr. Naomi Walker

Chapter 6 - Spangin' and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural Modernity

Helena Duncan

Part 3 - Women Writing the Public Space

Chapter 7 - 'There's London!': Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman

Cigdem Talu

Chapter 8 - Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman's Side and The More I See of Men

Dr. Louise McDonald

Part 4 - Women Writing New Interpretations of Space

Chapter 9 - 'Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her' (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing.

Professor Josie Billington

Chapter 10 - R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial Indonesia

Dr. Silvia Mayasari-Hoffert

Chapter 11 - Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928)

Annie Strausa

Conclusion - Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker