Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Feminism and Fiction: 1694-1798 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mary Astell to Catherine Macaulay: Women, Morals and Education -- 3. 'A New Species of Writing' -- 4. Sir Charles Grandison -- 5. Women as Authors: 1788-98 -- 6. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- 7. The 'Great Wollstonecraft Scandal' of 1798 -- Part Two: The Publication and Reception of Jane Austen's Novels, 1797-1818 -- 8. The Feminist Controversy and the Received Biography -- 9. Residence in Bath -- 10. The Curious History of Mrs Ashton Dennis (M.A.D.) -- 11. Scott's Review of Emma -- Part Three: Allusion, Irony and Feminism in the Austen Novels -- 12. Comedy and the Austen Heroines: The Early Novels -- 13. Sense and Sensibility -- 14. Northhanger Abbey -- 15. Pride and Prejudice -- 16. Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma -- Part Four: Feminist Criticism of Society and Literature in the Later Novels -- 17. Mansfield Park -- 18. Emma -- 19. Persuasion and Sanditon -- Postcript: Jane Austen and the Critical Tradition -- Appendix: The Bath Theatre -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y.