Introduction, Susan Sellars; the return of the repressed - reading Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Jane Aaron; critical warfare and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Linda Williams; Miranda, Where's Your Sister? - reading Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ann Thompson; fingers in the fruit basket - a feminist reading of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Rebecca ORourke; Jane Austen, politics and sensibility, Janet Todd; Antonia Whites Frost in May - a lesbian feminist reading, Pauline Palmer; history, memory and language in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Rebecca Ferguson; O Careless, Unspeakable Mother - H.D.Irigaray and maternal origin, Claire Buck; John Clare's Child Harold - the road not taken, Lynne Pearce; Oh Oxford Thou Art Full of Filth - the prophetical writings of Hester Biddle, 1629(?)-1696(?), Elaine Hobby; The Assembly of Ladies - a maze of feminist sign-reading, Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson; The Rattling of her Discourse and the Flapping of her Dress - George Meredith writing The Women of the Future, Penny Boumelha.