Contents

Preface

Introduction

Myth and Morality, Sources of Law and Prejudice

From Sin to Sickness

Radclyffe Hall 1886–1943

Gertrude Stein 1874–1946

Willa Cather 1876–1947

Vita Sackville-West 1892–1962

Ivy Compton-Burnett 1892–1969

Elizabeth Bowen 1899–1973

Colette 1873–1954

Violette Leduc 1907–1972

Margaret Anderson 1893–1973

Dorothy Baker 1907–1968

May Sarton 1912–

Maureen Duffy 1933–

Four Decades of Fiction

Recent Nonfiction

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A Biography of Jane Rule