Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Nobody’s child must sleep under Somebody’s roof — and why not yours?’ Adventures of the Female Ego in Dickens, George Meredith’s The Egoist and Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Chapter 3 ‘Dangerous Domestic Secrets’ on Trial in The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins

Chapter 4 ‘Running on lines’: Women and the Railway in Victorian and Early Modernist Culture

Chapter 5 Stepping Out: ‘At Home’ or ‘From our Own Correspondent’? The Lady Writer or the Woman Journalist?

Chapter 6 ‘I write the truth as I see it’: Unsettling the Boundaries of Gender, Travel Writing and Ethnography in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Chapter 7 Early Women Mountaineers Achieve Both Summits and Publication in Britain and America

Chapter 8 Racing to the Front: Auto-mobility and Competing Narratives of Women in the First World War

Chapter 9 ‘Always Coming and Going’: The In-Between Spaces of Elizabeth Bowen’s Early Novels

Chapter 10 Moving Back to ‘Home’ and ‘Nation’: Women Dramatists, 1938–1945

Chapter 11 Spatial Parody, Theatricalization and Constructions of ‘Self’ in Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt and Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café

Chapter 12 ‘Fritillary Fever’: Cultivating the Self and Gardening the World in the Writing of Clara Coltman Vyvyan