Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-311) and index.
Contents
Female voices in convents, courts and households : the French Middle Ages / Roberta L. Krueger -- To choose ink and pen : French Renaissance women's writing / Cathleen M. Bauschatz -- Altering the fabric of history : women's participation in the classical age / Faith E. Beasley -- Eighteenth-century : women writing, women learning / Jean Bloch -- Eighteenth-century women novelists : genre and gender / Martin Hall -- Nineteenth century : shaping women / Rosemary Lloyd -- 1900-1969 : writing the void / Alex Hughes -- From order to adventure : women's fiction since 1970 / Leslie Hill -- Changing the script : women writers and the rise of autobiography / Michael Sheringham -- Women poets of the twentieth century / Michael Bishop -- Voicing the feminine : French women playwrights of the twentieth century / Mary Noonan -- Feminist literary theory / Judith Still.
