Emily Blair teaches English in the Humanities Division at Solano Community College in Fairfield, California.

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Introduction-Poetry the Wrong Side Out

1.  The Slant of the Kitchen Chair: Reassessing Virginia Woolf's Relationship to Her Nineteenth-Century Predecessors

2.  The Etiquette of Fiction

3.  The Wrong Side of the Tapestry: Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters  

4.  The Bad Woman Writer-"Prostituting Culture and Enslaving Intellectual Liberty": Virginia Woolf and Margaret Oliphant

5.  A Softly, Spiritually Green Damask: Margaret Oliphant's Domestic Genius  

6.  Cool, Lady-like, Critical or Ravishing, Romantic, Recalling Some English Field or Harvest: Virginia Woolf's Perfect Hostess

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