Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : women artists, exceptional and representative lives
  • Tragedy, sisterhood and revenge : Mme de Staël's Corinne or Italy
  • A voice from the margins : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
  • History, art, and fiction : Anna Banti's Artemisia
  • Getting loose : women and narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my youth
  • The work of faith in the stories of Grace Paley.