1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993), p. 50.
2. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1977), pp. 121–7.
3. Patricia Waugh, ‘The Woman Writer and the Continuities of Feminism’, A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, ed. James F. English (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), p. 191.
4. A.S. Byatt, Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings (London: Vintage, 1991), p. 4; Zadie Smith, ‘Two Paths for the Novel’, The New York Review of Books, 20 November, 2008, pp. 89–94, subsequently included in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (New York: Penguin, 2009).
5. See Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil or The Two Nations (1845).