English fiction, women authors
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Middlemarch
Family likeness
Regional Guide
Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing
Novel Shakespeares
Gothic feminism
Forbidden journeys
Reader, I married him
Unbecoming women
Chick lit
Black Lace Quickies 2
Narrative settlements
Beyond the lighthouse
Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction
All Passion Spent
Reclaiming myths of power
Imperialism at home
Subversive discourse
CliffsNotes on Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
The Saint and the Artist
Gendering classicism
Feminist fiction
Women of mystery
Women authors of detective series
Womanist and feminist aesthetics
Novels (Agnes Grey / Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights)
In the name of love
Becoming a heroine
The Victorian woman question in contemporary feminist fiction
Jane Austen in Hollywood
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