Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 Advancing the cause of liberty

Anna Pilz is Irish Research Council Fellow in the School of English at the University College Cork

Whitney Standlee is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Worcester

Foreword by Lia Mills
Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee
1. Works, righteousness, philanthropy and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick Maume
2. 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland - James H. Murphy
3. Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson
4. Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee
5. 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane Mahony and Eve Patten
6. Women, ambition and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani
7. 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher
8. 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade - Anna Pilz
9. 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson
10. 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak
11. 'The red sunrise': gender, violence and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat
12. Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington
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