Intro -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Frontispiece -- Introduction: Flight as Fight -- 1. The Rise of the Runaway-Woman Novelist -- 1.1 Aphra Behn -- 1.2 Delarivier Manley -- 1.3 Eliza Haywood -- 2. Running with Feeling -- 2.1 Samuel Richardson -- 2.2 Sarah Fielding -- 2.3 Charlotte Lennox -- 2.4 Sarah Scott -- 3. It Was a Dark and Stormy Flight -- 3.1 Ann Radcliffe -- 3.2 Mary Wollstonecraft -- 3.3 Frances Burney -- 4. The Ones Without the Manners -- 4.1 Jane Austen -- 4.2 Elizabeth Gaskell -- 4.3 William Makepeace Thackeray -- 4.4 Charles Dickens -- 5. Lilith on the Moors, Lilith on the Floss, Lilith on the Heath -- 5.1 The Brontës -- 5.2 George Eliot -- 5.3 Thomas Hardy -- 6. Fear of the Fast Young Lady -- 6.1 Ellen Wood -- 6.2 Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- 6.3 Wilkie Collins -- 7. The New Runaway-Woman Novelist -- 7.1 Mona Caird -- 7.2 Sarah Grand -- 7.3 George Egerton -- Epilogue: Gone Girls in Hollywood -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of female characters running away from home helped to shape both the novel form and modern feminism
