Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery of Victorian women poets including Emily Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti by femine critics.

General Editors Preface AcknowlegementsIntroduction,' Inner' and 'outer' readings; How feminist are these poems?; Is there a women s tradition? Emily Brontë 1. Margaret Homans, `Emily Brontë` 2. Christine Gallant, `The archetypal feminine in Emily Brontë's poetry.' 3. Kathryn Burlinson, What language can utter the feeling: Identity in the Poetry of Emily Brontë Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4. Cora Kaplan, Introduction to Aurora Leigh. 5. Dolores Rosenblum, Face to Face: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and nineteenth century poetry. 6. Deirdre David, Defiled Text and Political Poetry. 7. Rod Edmond, A printing women who has lost her place: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh Christina Rossetti 8. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, `The aesthetics of renunciation.' 9. Dorothy Mermin, Heroic Sisterhood in Goblin Market. 10. Isobel Armstrong, Christina Rossetti - Diary of a Feminist Reading. 11 Antony Harrison, Intertextuality: Dante, Petrarch and Christina Rossetti. 12. Terrence Holt, Men sell not such in any town: exchange in Goblin Market. 13. Mary Wilson Carpenter, " Eat me, drink me, love me", The consumable female body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.