Be good, sweet maid : : an anthology of women & literature / [electronic resource] / edited by Janet Todd.. — New York : : Holmes & Meier,, 1981.. — 174 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Part I. The romantic period -- Part II. Victorian period -- Part III. The modern period -- Part IV. The contemporary period -- : Artists and mothers : a false alliance / : The art of Manfield Park / : Frankenstein's daughter : Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft / : Ambivalence in the gynogram : Sade's utopian woman / : George Sand and the myth of femininity / : Sonnets from the Portugeuese : a negative and a positive context / : "Old maids have friends" : the unmarried heroine of Trollope's Barsetshire novels / : Beauty in distress : Daniel Deronda and The house of mirth / : Rebellions of good women / : Virginia Woolf's Miss Latrobe : the artist's last struggle against masculine values / : A passage to India as "marriage fiction" : Forster's sexual politics / : Violet Hunt's tales of the uneasy : ghost stories of a worldly woman / : Women and madness in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / : A conversation with May Sarton / : Quebec women writers / Janet Todd -- Nina Auerbach -- Ellen Serlen Uffen -- Janet Todd -- Beatrice Fink -- Leslie Rabine -- Susan Zimmerman -- Judith Weissman -- Constance Rooke -- Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Diane Filby Gillespie -- Elaine Showalter -- Marie and Robert Secor -- Charlotte Goodman -- Dolores Shelley -- Christian Makward.