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| [Introduction] | [1] |
| [Before Miss Burney] |
| [The First Woman Novelist] | [7] |
| [Fanny Burney, 1752-1840] |
| [A Picture of Youth] | [35] |
| [Fanny Burney’s “Camilla”] |
| [“Cecilia” to “Sense and Sensibility”] | [54] |
| [Writers from 1782-1811] |
| [A Study in Fine Art] | [66] |
| [Jane Austen, 1775-1817] |
| [A “Most Accomplished Coquette”] | [105] |
| [Jane Austen’s “Lady Susan”] |
| [Parallel Passages] | [117] |
| [Jane Austen and Fanny Burney] |
| [“Persuasion” to “Jane Eyre”] | [131] |
| [Writers from 1818-1847] |
| [A Lonely Soul] | [164] |
| [Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855] |
| [“Jane Eyre” to “Scenes of Clerical Life”] | [179] |
| [Writers from 1847-1858] |
| [A Professional Woman] | [204] |
| [George Eliot, 1819-1880] |
| [The Great Four] | [226] |
| [Burney, Austen, Brontë, George Eliot] |
| [The Woman’s Man] | [245] |
| [An Ideal and a Point of View] |
| [Personalities] | [263] |
| [Character Analysis and Biographical Outlines] |
| [Conclusion] | [282] |
| [Appendix—List of Minor Writers] | [293] |
| [Index to Authors and Titles] | [297] |