Introduction / Pat Browne -- The emergence of woman as hero in the nineteenth century / JoAnna Stephen Mink -- The "Sin" of Isabel Vane: East Lynne and Victorian sexuality / Gail Walker -- The unsung heroine: a study of May Welland in "The age of innocence" / Gwendolyn Morgan -- The journey toward individuation of Adela Quested in E.M. Forster's and David Lean's A passage to India / Valerie Broege -- The women flyers: from aviatrix to astronaut / Elizabeth S. Bell -- A romantic feminist: Margaret Sullavan in Only yesterday / T.J. Ross -- Bradley and the Beguines: Marion Zimmer Bradley's debt to the beguinal societies in her use of sisterhood in her Darkover novels / Anne K. Kaler
