Introduction: Women Readers as Literary Fixtures and Cultural Icons
Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley
1. Reading Women/Reading Pictures: Textual and Visual reading in Charlotte Bronte's Novels and Nineteenth-Century Paintings
Antonia Losano
2. 'Success is Sympathy': Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Woman Reader
Elizabeth Fekete Trubey
3. Reading Mind, Reading Body: Augusta Jane Evans' Beulah and the Physiology of Reading
Suzanne M Ashworth
4. 'I Should No More Think of Dictating...What Kinds of Books She Should Read': Images of Women readers in Literary Magazines
Jennifer Phegley
5. The Reading Habit and 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Barbara Hochman
6. Societal Reading, Social Work, and the Function of Literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May Flowers'
Sarah A. Wadsworth
7. 'A Thought in the huge Bald Forehead': Depictions of Women in the British Museum Reading Room 1857-1929
Ruth Hoberman
8. 'Luxuriating in Milton's Syllables': Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road
Tuire Valkeakari
9. Poor Lutie's Almanac: Reading and Social Critique in Ann Petry's The Street
Michele Crescenzo
10. 'One of Those People Like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': The pathologized Woman Reader in Literary Popular Culture
Janet Badia
11. The 'Talking Life' of Books: Constructing Women Readers in Oprah's Book Club
Mary R. Lamb
Afterward: Women Readers Revisited
Kate Flint
