Acknowledgments

Introduction: Feminist Literary Historiography

Katherine Binhammer

Susan Brown

Patricia Clements

Isobel Grundy

Jeanne Wood

Yarhound, Horrion, and the Horse-Headed Tartar: Editing Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book (1671)

Elaine Hobby

Cowley Among the Women: or, Poetry in the Contact Zone

Kathryn R. King

``Lesbian'' Literary History in the Eighteenth Century

Sally O'Driscoll

Beyond Feminist Literary History?: Re-Historicizing the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Woman Writer

Betty A. Schellenberg

Terminus a Quo, Terminus ad Quem: Chronological Boundaries in a Literary History

Susan Staves

``A considerable rank in the world of Belles Lettres'': Women, Fiction, and Literary History in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century

Antonia Forster

The Search for a Lost Atlantis: Feminist Paradigms, Narratives of Nation, and Genealogies of Victorian Women's Poetry and Anti-Slavery Writing

Marjorie Stone

Finding Phebe: A Literary History of Women's Science Writing

Ann B. Shteir

Recuperating from Modernism: Pauline Johnson's Challenge to Literary History

Carole Gerson

Literary History as Exorcism: May Sinclair Meets the Brontes

Suzanne Raitt

Women's Literary History in a Minor Key

Jo-Ann Wallace

Beyond (?) Feminist Recuperative Study

Bonnie Kime Scott

List of Contributors

Index