Introduction / Marysa Demoor -- 1. Emilia Dilke : self-fashioning and the nineteenth century / Elizabeth Mansfield -- 2. The art of self-creation : Henry James in the New York Edition prefaces / John H. Pearson -- 3. 'Who is "we"?' The 'daily paper' projects and the journalism manifestos of W. T. Stead / Laurel Brake -- 4. A novelist of character : becoming Lucas Malet / Talia Shaffer -- 5. Irony, ethics, and self-fashioning in George Moore's confessions of a young man / Annette Federico -- 6. Interstitial identities : Vernon Lee and the spaces in-between / Hilary Fraser -- 7. A woman poet angling for notice : Rosamund Marriott Watson / Linda K. Hughes -- 8. Arnold Bennett's other selves / Robert Squillace -- 9. Perpetuating joyce / Edward Bishop -- 10. Making room for the woman of genius : Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Robins and 'Modernism's other' as mother / Molly Hite