Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the bluestocking and the schoolgirl
  • A dense network of friends
  • "Ces deux opiniâtres amies" : reading Colette's Le pur et l'impur as a response to Woolf's A room of one's own
  • In pursuit of Woolf's 'woman's sentence' in Colette's La vagabonde, Duo, and Le toutounier
  • Fathers in the first fictions of Woolf and Colette
  • Reading across the Channel : the reception of Woolf's and Colette's work in England and in France
  • A dining room of one's own : Woolf and Colette on food and sex
  • Appendix 1. A comparative chronology of the works of Woolf and Colette
  • Appendix 2. Publication dates of translations.