Writers and their works covered in this book: Daisy and Angela Ashford, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Angela Carter, Kate Chopin, Colette, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, Rosa Guy, Maxine Hong Kinston, Alexandra Kollontai, Rosamond Lehmann, Doris Lessing, Paule Marshall, Harriet Martineau, Toni Morrison, Tillie Olsen, Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, Olive Schreiner, Murasaki Shikibu, Christina Stead, Lorna Tracy, Alice Walker, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf