1. Lionel Trilling, E. M. Forster ( Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1943 ), p. 118.
2. Virginia Woolf, The Forum, ‘Women and Fiction’, Collected Essays II ( London: The Hogarth Press, 1966 ), pp. 146–147.
3. Sydney Janet Kaplan, Feminine Consciousness in the Modern British Novel ( Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1975 ), pp. 1–2.
4. Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own, British Women Novelists from Brante to Lessing (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1977), pp. 33–34.
5. Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (London: Constable, 1934); After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (London: Jonathan Cape, 1930). All subsequent references will be to the Andre Deutsch editions of 1967 for Voyage in the Dark and 1969 for Mr Mackenzie and incorporated into the text.