Introduction / Joseph Bristow -- 'A Music of thine own': women's poetry / Isobel Armstrong -- The Damsel, the knight, and the victorian woman poet / Dorothy Mermin -- Emily Brontë / Margaret Homans -- 'Art's a service': social wound, sexual politics, and Aurora Leigh / Deirdre David -- From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento / Sandra M. Gilbert -- The Religious poetry of Christina Rossetti / Jerome J. McGann -- Consumer power and the utopia of desire: Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin market' / Elizabeth K. Helsinger -- 'Because men made the laws': the fallen woman and the woman poet / Angela Leighton