Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.

About this volume / Kathryn Stelmach Artuso -- Looking through the window: reflections and refractions in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own / Kathryn Stelmach Artuso - The Woolf era / Vincent P. Pecora -- Mrs. Woolf and the critics / Jean Mills -- Writing was her fighting: Three Guineas as a pacifist response / Ashley Foster -- Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf: the novelists' art / Roberta White -- "The most amazing senses of her generation": colourist design in Katherine Mansfield's fiction / Angela Smith -- Rebecca West: twentieth-century heretical humanist / Bernard Schweizer -- Killing the angel and the monster: a comparative and postcolonial analysis of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out / Mich Yonah Nyawalo -- "It had grown into a machine": transcience of identity and the search for a room of one's own in Quicksand and Plum Bun: a Novel Without a Moral / Christopher Allen Varlack -- Parties, pins, and perspective: Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, and matrilinial inheritance / Emily Daniell Magruder -- "The Woolf sting": Sylvia Plath annotating Virginia Woolf / Amanda Golden -- An Irish woman poet's room: Eavan Boland's debt to Virginia Woolf / Helen Emmitt -- Spaciousness and subjectivity in Alice Walker's womanist prose: from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own to a garden with "Every color flower represented" / Sarah L. Skripsky -- Raced bodies, corporeal texts: narratives of home and self in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street / Shanna M. Salinas -- Destabilizing life writings: narrative and temporal ruptures in The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Orlando / Quynh Nhu Le -- Narrative forms and feminist (dis)contents: an intertextual reading of the prose of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf / Sandra Cox.