Across the Atlantic: women in British North America -- Rhetoric and revolution: women and the new republic -- Sentimental poets and scribbling women: the writers of the early nineteenth century -- From true woman to new woman: redefining womanhood at the turn of the century -- Clashes with modernity: women writers between the world wars -- Literatures of witness: women writers after 1945 -- Coda: The literatures of the twenty-first century
