Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Creating a Woman's Space -- Windows to Women's Worlds, Portals to their Imaginations: Visual Female Spaces in Victorian Art -- Charlotte Brönte's Villette: Spatial Composition/ Topography as Discovery and Narrative -- Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters: Micro/ Macro- cosmic Visions -- George Eliot's Middlemarch: Dorothea Brooke's Visionary Spaces -- Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac: A Twentieth- Century Epilogue to a Nineteenth- Century Discussion -- Illustrations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.