Katie Baker was awarded a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chester in 2018. Her research focuses on female sexuality, domesticity and the 'businesswoman' in the work of nineteenth-century women writers. She has published on Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant and is currently an independent researcher.Naomi Walker is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. Her PhD research was based on the two Shropshire feminist writers, Mary Webb (1881–1927) and Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), and she used GIS (Geographical Information Systems) software to plot their lives and works within the Shropshire area.

• Introduction – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi WalkerPart 1 – Women Writing the Domestic SpaceChapter 1 – ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and SouthDr. Katie BakerChapter 2 – ‘The Room I sit in’: Women’s Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siècle and Modernist WritingDr. Emma LigginsChapter 3 – ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar YearsDr. Geraldine PerriamPart 2 – Women Writing the Rural SpaceChapter 4 – Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880sDr. Kathryn WalchesterChapter 5 – Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire LandscapeDr. Naomi WalkerChapter 6 – Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural ModernityHelena DuncanPart 3 – Women Writing the Public SpaceChapter 7 – ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern WomanCigdem TaluChapter 8 – Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman’s Side and The More I See of MenDr. Louise McDonaldPart 4 – Women Writing New Interpretations of SpaceChapter 9 – ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.Professor Josie BillingtonChapter 10 – R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial IndonesiaDr. Silvia Mayasari-HoffertChapter 11 – Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)Annie StrausaConclusion – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker

Katie Baker was awarded a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chester in 2018. Her research focuses on female sexuality, domesticity and the 'businesswoman' in the work of nineteenth-century women writers. She has published on Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant and is currently an independent researcher.Naomi Walker is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. Her PhD research was based on the two Shropshire feminist writers, Mary Webb (1881–1927) and Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), and she used GIS (Geographical Information Systems) software to plot their lives and works within the Shropshire area.

• Introduction – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi WalkerPart 1 – Women Writing the Domestic SpaceChapter 1 – ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and SouthDr. Katie BakerChapter 2 – ‘The Room I sit in’: Women’s Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siècle and Modernist WritingDr. Emma LigginsChapter 3 – ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar YearsDr. Geraldine PerriamPart 2 – Women Writing the Rural SpaceChapter 4 – Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880sDr. Kathryn WalchesterChapter 5 – Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire LandscapeDr. Naomi WalkerChapter 6 – Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural ModernityHelena DuncanPart 3 – Women Writing the Public SpaceChapter 7 – ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern WomanCigdem TaluChapter 8 – Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman’s Side and The More I See of MenDr. Louise McDonaldPart 4 – Women Writing New Interpretations of SpaceChapter 9 – ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.Professor Josie BillingtonChapter 10 – R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial IndonesiaDr. Silvia Mayasari-HoffertChapter 11 – Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)Annie StrausaConclusion – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker

Katie Baker was awarded a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chester in 2018. Her research focuses on female sexuality, domesticity and the 'businesswoman' in the work of nineteenth-century women writers. She has published on Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant and is currently an independent researcher.Naomi Walker is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. Her PhD research was based on the two Shropshire feminist writers, Mary Webb (1881–1927) and Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), and she used GIS (Geographical Information Systems) software to plot their lives and works within the Shropshire area.

• Introduction – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi WalkerPart 1 – Women Writing the Domestic SpaceChapter 1 – ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and SouthDr. Katie BakerChapter 2 – ‘The Room I sit in’: Women’s Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siècle and Modernist WritingDr. Emma LigginsChapter 3 – ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar YearsDr. Geraldine PerriamPart 2 – Women Writing the Rural SpaceChapter 4 – Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880sDr. Kathryn WalchesterChapter 5 – Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire LandscapeDr. Naomi WalkerChapter 6 – Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural ModernityHelena DuncanPart 3 – Women Writing the Public SpaceChapter 7 – ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern WomanCigdem TaluChapter 8 – Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman’s Side and The More I See of MenDr. Louise McDonaldPart 4 – Women Writing New Interpretations of SpaceChapter 9 – ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.Professor Josie BillingtonChapter 10 – R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial IndonesiaDr. Silvia Mayasari-HoffertChapter 11 – Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)Annie StrausaConclusion – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker