Title; Contents; Chapter I -- The New-Comers; Chapter II -- Breaking the Ice; Chapter III -- Dwellers in the Wilderness; Chapter IV -- A Sister's Secret; Chapter V -- A Naval Conquest; Chapter VI -- An Old Story; Chapter VII -- Venit Tandem Felicitas; Chapter VIII -- Shadows Before; Chapter IX -- A Family Plot; Chapter X -- Women of the Future; Chapter XI -- A Blot from the Blue; Chapter XII -- Friends in Need; Chapter XIII -- In Strange Waters; Chapter XIV -- Eastward Ho!; Chapter XV -- Still Among Shoals; Chapter XVI -- A Midnight Visitor; Chapter XVII -- In Port at Last
Summary
Conan Doyle departs quite drastically from his male-centric Sherlock Holmes in Beyond the City; it deals with ideas of women's liberation in Victorian England. Three families are drawn together in the countryside by a series of misfortunes, romantic ideas and intriguing events