Women and literary celebrity in the nineteenth century: the transatlantic production of fame and gender

Introduction : a right to call herself famous

Reconstructing Charlotte : the making of celebrated "female genius"

"A sort of monster" : Fanny Fern, fame's appetite, and the construction of the multivalent famous female author

"Great genius breaks all bonds" : Margaret Oliphant and the female literary greats

Correcting the record, creating a new one : Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes and Eliza Potter's A hair-dresser's experience in high life

The text as child : gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the fin de siècle

Conclusion : Doing her level best to play the man's game : literary hermaphrodites and the exceptional woman

Afterword : in search of the cult of Charlotte.