Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Mothers of (Feminist) Art

PART 1: FEMININITIES: SARAH GRAND (1854-1943)
Chapter 1 Playing with voices/Speaking in Tongues: Journalism and Early Novels
Chapter 2 Narrative Cross-Dressing: Ideala (1888) and The Heavenly Twins (1893)
Chapter 3 New Woman Jouissances: Subversive Spirits and the Girl Artist in The Beth Book (1897)
PART 2: ALLEGORIES: OLIVE SCHREINER (1855-1920)
Chapter 4 Transitions and Transfigurations: Dreams (1890), The Story of an African Farm (1883), and From Man to Man (1926)
PART 3: MYTHOLOGIES: MONA CAIRD (1854-1932)
Chapter 5: Re-visioning Myths: The Morality of Marriage (1897), The Pathway of the Gods (1898), and The Stones of Sacrifice (1915)
Chapter 6: Re/Membrance: Mythical Mothers and Art/ists in One That Wins (1887) and The Daughters of Danaus (1894)
Sorties: New Woman, New Myths?
Notes

About the Author

Ann Heilmann is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea