Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.
Also issued online.
Root-bound: the Victorian context -- Mother texts -- Hearts and rounds: Jewett in the community of women -- Hearts and rounds, part 2 -- Honey from ashes: pastoral as woman's place -- Deephaven: ambivalence in Arcadia -- Ascending spiral -- The return -- Sympathy is of the mind as well as the heart -- Writing life