Forerunners. Women, ideology and censorship in the nineteenth century ; The well-regulated heroine

Realists and feminists. Introductory ; Thomas Hardy, a study in contradiction ; George Moore and George Meredith ; The short story ; Feminist fiction and the rejection of realism ; a postscript

Responses. The counterattack

The new century. Introductory ; Mr Wells's sexual utopia ; The sober realism of Arnold Bennett ; Mr Forster's telegrams and anger

Conclusion. Mr Lawrence and Mrs Woolf.