Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century

Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina

Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's

Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet

Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland

Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price

Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe

Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton

Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines

Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's

Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens

Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period

Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines

Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne

Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda

Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines

Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines

Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte

Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia