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Machine generated contents note: About the Editors vii --Contributors ix --Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction 1 -- Jo Malin --SECTION I: WOMEN THEORIZING HERSPACE- SOLITUDE AND WRITING 19 --1. Women Alone: The Spinster's Art 21 -- Suzette A. Henke --2. With Sure and Uncertain Footing: Negotiating the Terrain of a Solitude in May Sarton's Journals 39 -- Lisette Schillig --3. Unknown Women: Secular Solitude in the Works of Alice Koller and May Sarton 73 -- Christina Pugh --4. A Veritable Guest to Her Own Self 95 -- Lisa Johnson --5. Woolf, Hurston, and the House of Self 105 -- Kristina Deffenbacher --6. The Domestic Politics of Marguerite Duras 123 -- Annabelle Cone --SECTION II: WOMEN'S WRITING SPACES- SOLITUDE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS 143 --7. Writing Women, Solitary Space, and the Ideology of Domesticity 147 -- Victoria Boynton -- 8. Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing 165 -- Claudia Mon Pere --9. Between the Study and the Living Room: Writing Alone and with Others 179 -- Eleanor Berry --SECTION III: WOMEN WRITING HERSPACE- PERSONAL TAKES ON HOME 201 --10. What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction) 205 -- Jan Wellington --11. The Little Gray House and Me 231 -- Claudia A. Limbert --12. The Colors and the Light 239 -- Maria Brown --13. A Woman's Place 245 -- Anne Mamary -- 14. Reframing My Life 261 -- Mary Rose -- 15. An &/or Peace Performance 275 -- H. Kassia Fleisher &/or Joe Amato -- Afterword 283 -- Victoria Boynton.