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