CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–
- Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson 1
1 Women in the Field – Roger Ebbatson 15
2 ‘Between Two Civilizations’: George Sturt’s Constructions of Loss and
Change in Village Life – Barry Sloan 25
3 At Work and at Play: Charles Lee’s Cynthia in the West - Gemma Goodman 41
4 ‘Going Out, Going Alone’: Modern Subjectivities in Rural Scotland,
1900–21 – Samantha Walton 55
5 ‘Drowned Lands’: Charles Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake and the
Masculation of the English Fens – Lynsey McCulloch 73
6 ‘Wandering Like a Wild Th ing’: Rurality, Women and Walking in
George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Th e Mill on the Floss - Charlotte Mathieson 87
7 ‘I Never Liked Long Walks’: Gender, Nature and Jane Eyre’s Rural
Wandering – Katherine F. Montgomery 103
8 Gertrude Jekyll: Cultivating the Gendered Space of the Victorian
Garden for Professional Success – Christen Ericsson-Penfold 117
9 From England to Eden: Gardens, Gender and Knowledge in Virginia
Wo o l f ’s Th e Voyage Out – Karina Jakubowicz 131
10 Th e Transnational Rural in Alicia Little’s My Diary in a Chinese Farm - Eliza S. K. Leong 145
Notes 161
Index 187