Introduction / Pat Browne
The emergence of woman as hero in the nineteenth century / JoAnna Stephen Mink
The "Sin" of Isabel Vane: East Lynne and Victorian sexuality / Gail Walker
The unsung heroine: a study of May Welland in "The age of innocence" / Gwendolyn Morgan
The journey toward individuation of Adela Quested in E.M. Forster's and David Lean's A passage to India / Valerie Broege
The women flyers: from aviatrix to astronaut / Elizabeth S. Bell
A romantic feminist: Margaret Sullavan in Only yesterday / T.J. Ross
Bradley and the Beguines: Marion Zimmer Bradley's debt to the beguinal societies in her use of sisterhood in her Darkover novels / Anne K. Kaler.