v. 1. 700-1500 / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt
v. 2. 1500-1610 / edited by Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit
v. 3. 1610-1690 / edited by Mihoko Suzuki
v. 4. 1690-1750 / edited by Ros Ballaster
v. 5. 1750-1830 / edited by Jacqueline M. Labbe
v. 7. 1880-1920 / edited by Holly A. Laird
v. 8. 1920-1945 / edited by Maroula Joannou
v. 9. 1945-1975 / edited by Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins
v. 10. 1970-present / edited by Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker.
v. 1: Introduction: writing a history of women's writing from 700 to 1500 / L. Herbert McAvoy & D. Watt
Part I: pre-texts and contexts. Women and the origins of English literature / C.A. Lees & G.R. Overing
Literary production before and after the conquest / C.A.M. Clarke
The French of the English and early British women's literary culture / C. Batt
Women writers in Wales / J. Cartwright
Medieval antifeminism / A. Bernau
Part II: bodies, behaviours and texts. Romance / C. Saunders
Saints' lives / S. Horner
Devotional literature / M.M. Sauer
Marian literature / S. Niebryzdowski
Late medieval conduct literature / M.J. Seaman
Part III: literacies and literary cultures. Women and their manuscripts / C.M. Meale
Women and reading / L. Farina
Women and networks of literary production / E. Robertson
Anonymous writers / L.H. McAvoy
Women translators / A. Barratt
Women's letters, 1350-1500 / J. Daybell
Part IV: female authority. Christine de Pizan and Joan of Arc / N.B. Warren
Mary of Oignies / J.N. Brown
Bridget of Sweden / L. Saetveit Miles
Catherine of Siena / A.C. Grisé́
Julian of Norwich / A. Appleford
'A revelation of purgatory' / M.C. Erler.
v. 2: Introduction / C. Bicks & J. Summit
Part I: reading and writing. Reading women / H. Brayman Hackel
Literary circles and communities / J. Crawford
Women in early English print culture / A. Coldiron
Part II: writing places: domestic settings. Household writing / C. Richardson
Maternal advice / E. Snook
Playing spaces. The street / P.A. Brown
The theater / M. Wynne-Davies
Tudor courts. The courts / C. Sale
Part III: developing histories. Religious writing and reformation / N. Bradley Warren
Race and skin color in early modern women's writing / S. Lyengar
Translation/historical writing / C. Laoutaris.
v. 3: Introduction / M. Suzuki
Part I: networks, debates, traditions, discourses. Identifying as (women) writers / P. Salzman
Channeling the gender debate: legitimation and agency in seventeenth-century tracts and women's poetry / M. Matchinske
All about Eve: seventeenth century women writers and the narrative of the fall / S. Miller
English civil war women writers and the discourses of fifth monarchism / K. Gillespie
Part II: modes and sites. Seventeenth-century women's manuscript writing / V. Burke
Reading seventeenth-century women's letters / S. Wiseman
'Herselfe livinge, to be pictured': 'monumental circles' and women's self-portraiture / P. Phillippy
Part III: new perspectives on literary genres. 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's indefensible apologies for poesy / C. Kinney
Valuing early modern women's verse in the twenty-first century / P. Hammons
Early modern English women dramatists (1610-1690): new perspectives / M. Wynne-Davies
History, satire, and fiction by British women writers in the seventeenth century / M. Reeves
Part IV: revisioning contexts. Critiquing the sexual economies of marriage / T. Jankowski
'The empire of man over the inferiour creatures': British women, race, and seventeenth-century science / C. Malcolmson
Questioning gender, war, and the 'Old Lie': the military expertise of Margaret Cavendish / J. Wright
Women, civil war, and empire: the politics of translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace / M. Suzuki
English women's writing and Islamic empires, 1610-90 / B. Andrea.
v. 4: Introduction / R. Ballaster
Part I: debates. Woman's place / K. O'Brien
The country and the city / C. Gerrard
Part II: transformations. The politics and aesthetics of dissent / S. Achinstein
The Scriblerian project / J. Campbell
Women writers and the rise of the novel / K. Williams
Part III: writing modes. Scribal and print publication / K. King
The periodical / S.L. Maurer
Letters and learning / M. Bigold
Part IV: worlds of feeling. Religious love / J. Shaw
The love of friendship / M. Haslett
Part V: Overview. Critical review / R. Ballaster.
v. 5: Introduction: defining 'women's writing'; or, writing 'the history' / J.M. Labbe
Part I: 1750-1830: overviews. Women and print culture, 1750-1830 / M. Levy
Women's travel writing, 1750-1830 / K. Turner
Part II: 1750-1800: Revolutions in female writing. Bluestocking women and the negotiations of oral, manuscript and print cultures / B.A. Schellenberg
'[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten': gender, genre and the mid-century novel / J. Batchelor
Anglophone Welsh women's poetry 1750-1784: Jane Cave and Anne Penny / S. Prescott
The poem that ate America: Helen Maria Williams' ode on the peace (1783) / K. Davies
Picturing benevolence against the commercial cry, 1750-1798: or, Sarah Fielding and the secret causes of romanticism / D. Landry
Women writers and abolition / D. Coleman
Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the romance of real life / S. Curran
Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the first year of war with France / H. Guest
Part III: 1800-1830: worlds of writing. The Porter sisters, women's writing, and historical fiction / D. Looser
Joanna Baillie's emblematic theatre / B. Bolton
National internationalism: women's writings and European literature, 1800-1830 / D. Saglia
Jane Austen's critical response to women's writing: 'a good spot for fault-finding' / O. Murphy
Mary Tighe and the coterie of British women poets in psyche / H.K. Linkin
Influence, anxiety, and erasure in women's writing: romantic becomes Victorian / S.C. Behrendt.
v. 7: Introduction: a revolutionary moment / Holly A. Laird
Part. I. Modern women. The (Irish) new woman: political, literary, and sexual experiments / Tina O'Toole
Fin-de siècle Ouida: a new woman writing against the new woman? / Lyn Pykett
The new woman in Wales: Welsh women's writing, 1880-1920 / Jane Aaron
British women writers, technology, and the sciences, 1880-1920 / Lisa Hager
Mediating women: Evelyn Sharp and the modern media fictions of suffrage / Barbara Green ; From the decadent to the queer. Female decadence / Joseph Bristow
Re-writing Myths of Creativity: Pygmalionism, Galatea figures, and the revenge of the muse in late Victorian literature by women / Catherine Delyfer
Venus in the museum: women's representations and the rise of public art institutions / Ruth Hoberman
Women's nature and the neo-pagan movement / Dennis Denisoff ; From nation to the globe. This nation which is not one: Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm / Holly A. Laird
Geographies of self: Scottish women writing Scotland / Glenda Norquay
Modern travel on the fringes of empire / Judy Suh
Women writing Japan / Edward Marx
Part II. Modern genres: From the story to the lyric. New women writing beyond the novel: short stories / Margaret D. Stetz
Material negotiations: women writing the short story / Kate Krueger
Women's lyric, 1880-1920 / Emily Harrington
Vigo Street Sapphos: the Bodley Head Press and women's poetry of the 1890s / Linda H. Peterson
From journalism to the war memoir. Women's slum journalism, 1885-1910 / S. Brooke Cameron
Turn-of-the-century women writing about art, 1880-1920 / Meaghan Clarke
The British female detective written by women, 1890-1920 / Joseph Kestner
Writing modern deaths: women, war, and the view from the home front / Bette London.
v. 8: Introduction. Modernism, modernity, and the middlebrow in context / Maroula Joannou
Part I. Mapping modernism. Gender in modernism / Bonnie Kime Scott ; Exemplary intermodernists : Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller, and Naomi Mitchison / Kristin Bluemel ; Virginia Woolf and the aesthetics of modernism / Jane Goldman ; The art of bi-location : Sylvia Townsend Warner / Maud Ellmann
Part II. Cultural hierarchy. The feminine middlebrow novel / Nicola Humble ; Women and comedy / Sophie Blanch ; The woman's historical novel / Diana Wallace ; "Queens of crime" : the "golden age" of crime fiction / Cora Kaplan
Part III. Gendered genres. Poetry, 1920-1945 / Jane Dowson ; Drama, 1920-1945 / Rebecca D'Monté ; The woman journalist, 1920-1945 / Catherine Clay
Part IV. The mobile woman. Caught in the triple net? Welsh, Scottish, and Irish women writers / Katie Gramich ; Women's writing in the Second World War / Gill Plain ; Women writing empire / Lisa Regan ; Women writing the city / Deborah Longworth ; Myths of passage : Paris and Parallax / Tory Young.
v. 9: Introduction / Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins
Part I. Changing forms. Post-war fiction: Realism and experimentalism / Kaye Mitchell ; Lyric, narrative and performance in poetry / Jane Dowson ; Look back in gender: drama / Gabriele Griffin ; Journalism / Deborah Chambers
Part II. Reconstructing gender. Angry young women: education, class, and politics / Mary Eagleton ; Sex, censorship and identity / Kerry Myler ; The Second Wave / Leanne Bibby ; The aftermath of war / Kristin Bluemel
Part III. Global politics. Responding to the Holocaust / Sue Vice ; Internal empire / Katie Gramich ; The transcultural tryst in migration, exile and diaspora / Sandra Courtman ; 'Witness literature' in the post-war novels of Storm Jameson and Doris Lessing / Elizabeth Maslen
Part IV. Expanding genres. Double trouble: Helen MacInnes's and Agatha Christie's speculative spy thrillers / Phyllis Lassner ; Historical fictions / Diana Wallace ; Children's literature: ideologies of the past, present and future / Catherine Butler ; Science fiction / Susan Watkins.
v. 10: Introduction / Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker
Part I. Women and literary culture. Fiction: from realism to postmodernism and beyond / Clare Hanson ; Poetry on page and stage / Jane Dowson ; Mrs Worthington's daughters: drama / Gabriele Griffin ; Media old and new / Deborah Chambers ; Publishing and prizes / Gail Low
Part. II. Feminism and fiction: evolution and dissent. The Grandes dames : writers of longevity / Maroula Joannou ; 'The monstrous regiment': literature and the women's liberation movement / Imelda Whelehan ; Writing the f-word : girl power, the third wave, and postfeminism / Rebecca Munford
Part. III. Gender and genre. The gothic: danger, discontent, and desire / Sue Zlosnik ; Changing the story: fairy tale, fantasy, myth / Elizabeth Wanning Harries ; Disputing the past: historical fiction / Jeannette King ; Life lines: auto/biography and memoir / Linda Anderson
Part IV. Writing the nation : difference, diaspora, devolution. Writing the nations: Welsh, Northern Irish, and Scottish literature / Hywel Dix ; Unsettling the centre: black British fiction / Suzanne Scafe ; Redefining Britishness: British Asian Fiction / Ruvani Ranasinha
Part V. Writing now. Writing now / Claire Chambers and Susan Watkins.