Smith, Patti 231
Horses 231, 234
Just Kids 231–3
Smiths, The: Louder than Bombs 183
Snow Queen, The 22
Sopranos, The 186
Sound of Music, The 26, 92, 162
South Riding 221–22
Stiles, Julia 123
Story of Henny Penny, The 26–7
Strawberry Switchblade: ‘Since Yesterday’ 63
Streatfeild, Noel
Ballet Shoes 5, 151–3, 154–5, 233, 235
The Whicharts 153–4, 233
Strindberg, August: Miss Julie 133
Suckers, The 144
Sugar House, The 115
Summer Will Show 218
‘Sun, Moon, and Talia’ 12–13
Superman 174
Susann, Jacqueline
Every Night, Josephine! 168
The Love Machine 171
Once Is Not Enough 171
Valley of the Dolls 163–73, 180, 236
Taming of the Shrew, The 82, 102
Tangled (film) 14
Taste of Honey, A 182–3
Tess of the d’Urbervilles 133–5
Thatcher, Margaret 93
Thief of Bagdad, The 16
Thiérrée, James 175
Thousand and One Nights, The 236–44
‘Thumbelina’ 22
Titus Andronicus 21–2
To the Lighthouse 228–9
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina 95
War and Peace 2
Top Withens 1–3
Townsend Warner, Sylvia 218
Lolly Willowes 215–19, 236
Summer Will Show 218
Transformations 22–3
Travers, PL: Mary Poppins 221
Twilight series 76–8, 189
‘Ugly Duckling, The’ 22
Uncle Vanya 144
Valley of the Dolls (novel) 163–73, 180, 236
Valley of the Dolls (film) 173
Vashti 17, 18–19, 213
Virago Modern Classics 118
Vogue 233
Wages of Fear 232
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple 135, 236
‘Saving the Life That is Your Own’ 136
War and Peace 2
Well of Loneliness, The 220
Welles, Orson 200
What Katy Did 5, 130–31, 132–3, 234
Whedon, Joss 101
When Harry Met Sally 43
Where Angels Fear to Tread 147
Whicharts, The 153–4, 233
White, Antonia 2, 117, 150
Beyond the Glass 115
Frost in May 5, 104–7, 111, 114–15, 117, 118
The Lost Traveller 115, 116–17
The Sugar House 115
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 142
Wide Sargasso Sea 198–9
Wolf, Naomi 21
Women Who Run with the Wolves 186
Women’s Room, The 96–100, 219, 235
Wonder Woman 10
Wood, Natalie 157
Woodman, Francesca 208
Woolf, Virginia 120, 218, 229, 234
Orlando: A Biography 96
A Room of One’s Own 100
To the Lighthouse 228–9
Woolson, Abba Goold: Dress Reform 51
World War I 220
World War II 113
Wouk, Herman: Marjorie Morningstar 6, 155–61, 235
Wurtzel, Elizabeth: Prozac Nation 127
Wuthering Heights (novel) 1–5, 69, 116, 185–95, 201–3, 204, 205, 211, 215, 233, 235, 236
Wuthering Heights (film) 185, 186, 202
‘Wuthering Heights’ (song) 185
You’ve Got Mail 155
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to my fantastic editor Becky Hardie and my fabulous agent Judith Murray, for championing the book from the start, and to everyone at Chatto & Windus, especially Kate Bland, Parisa Ebrahimi, Beth Humphries, James Jones, Susannah Otter and Ruth Warburton.
Thank you also (for cheerleading, tea and sympathy, wise advice, and more) to: Robert Anasi, Hephzibah Anderson, Jonathan Beckmen, Marina Benjamin, Tom Berish, Michael Caines, Maddy Costa, Ezra Ellis, Edmund Ellis, Aida Hakim, Paul King, Robert Macfarlane, Alexander Masters, Neel Mukherjee, Roskar Nasan, Ruaridh Nicoll, Nick Quinn, Amy Rosenthal, Rachel Shabi, Jonathan Thake, my book group lovelies (Mary Agnew, Natalie Gold, Rebecca Hughes, Katherine Knight and Heloïse Sénéchal), the Dog House writers (Robin Booth, Nick Harrop, Matthew Morrison and Ben Musgrave), and my god-daughter Audrey Quentin (for mermaid lore).
And with my love, thanks to my best friend Emma Ayech, and my mother Amanda Ellis.
I’m very grateful for permission to quote from the following:
Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright © 1956, Allen Ginsberg, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.
Words from ‘Glass, Irony and God’ by Anne Carson, published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited
‘Fever 103°’ taken from Ariel, the Restored Edition © Estate of Sylvia Plath and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd
‘Cut’ taken from Ariel, the Restored Edition © Estate of Sylvia Plath and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd
Extracts taken from The Journals of Sylvia Plath © Estate of Sylvia Plath and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd
Extracts taken from The Bell Jar © Estate of Sylvia Plath and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd
‘The Minotaur’ taken from Birthday Letters © Estate of Ted Hughes and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd
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Introduction
Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey (1817)
Campbell, Joseph, A Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Chapter 1: The Little Mermaid
Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy Tales (1837)
Anon., The Story of Henny Penny (n.d.)
Basile, Giambattista, Il Pentamerone (1634 and 1636)
The Book of Esther
Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Dworkin, Andrea, Woman Hating (1976)
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812)
Perrault, Charles, Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times With Morals (1697)
Sexton, Anne, Transformations (1971)
Shakespeare, William, Titus Andronicus (1594)
Warner, Marina, From the Beast to the Blonde (1994)
Wolf, Naomi, The Beauty Myth (1991)
Chapter 2: Anne of Green Gables
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women (1868)
—Good Wives (1869)
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—A Long Fatal Love Chase (written under the pseudonym A.M.
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson, A Little Princess (1905)
Ephron, Nora, When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Francis, Richard, Fruitlands: the Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia (2011)
Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
Montgomery, L.M., Anne of Green Gables (1908)
—Anne of Avonlea (1909)
—Anne of the Island (1915)
—Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)
—Rainbow Valley (1919)
—Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
—Emily of New Moon (1923)
—Emily Climbs (1925)
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Porter, Eleanor H., Pollyanna (1913)
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Chapter 3: Lizzy Bennet
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
—Mansfield Park (1814)
Blume, Judy, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
(1970)
Cooper, Jilly, Riders (1985)
—Rivals (1988)
Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist (1838)
Meyer, Stephanie, Twilight, (2005)
Orbach, Susie, Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978)
Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet (1597)
—A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600)
Spence, Jon, Becoming Jane Austen (2003)
Tomalin, Claire, Jane Austen: a Biography (1997)
Chapter 4: Scarlett O’Hara
Carter, Angela, Nights at the Circus (1984)
Collins, Suzanne, The Hunger Games (2008)
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary (1856)
French, Marilyn, The Women’s Room (1977)
Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch (1970)
Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll’s House (1879)
Jong, Erica, Fear of Flying (1973)
Larsson, Stieg, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2005)
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With The Wind (1939)
Pyron, Darden Asbury, Southern Daughter: the Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind (2004)
Shakespeare, William, The Taming of the Shrew (1594)
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina (1878)
Whedon, Joss, and others, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Woolf, Virginia, Orlando (1928)
—A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Chapter 5: Franny Glass
Donne, John, Songs and Sonnets (1601)
Dunn, Jane, Antonia White: A Life (2000)
Maynard, Joyce, At Home in the World (1999)
Parker, Dorothy, The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944)
Salinger, J.D., Franny and Zooey (1961)
Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra (1623)
Slawenski, Kenneth, JD Salinger: A Life (2010)
White, Antonia, Frost in May (1933)
—The Lost Traveller (1950)
—The Sugar House (1952)
—Beyond the Glass (1954)
Chapter 6: Esther Greenwood
Alvarez, Al, The Savage God (1972)
Coolidge, Susan, What Katy Did (1872)
Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)
Hughes, Ted, Birthday Letters (1998)
Malcolm, Janet, The Silent Woman (1993)
Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar (1963)
—Ariel (1965)
—(with a foreword by Frieda Hughes) Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004)
—The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
—(edited by Karen V. Kukil) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Richardson, Samuel, Clarissa (1748)
Walker, Alice, The Color Purple (1982)
—In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
Chapter 7: Lucy Honeychurch
Albee, Edward, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
Brecht, Bertolt, (edited by John Willett) Brecht on Theatre (1964)
Brook, Peter, The Empty Space (1968)
Chekhov, Anton, Uncle Vanya (1897)
Coward, Noël, Private Lives (1930)
Euripides, The Bacchae (405 BC)
Forster, E.M., A Room with a View (1908)
—Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
—Maurice (1971)
Moffat, Wendy, E.M. Forster: a New Life (2010)
Parker, Dorothy, The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944)
Streatfeild, Noel, The Whicharts (1931)
—Ballet Shoes (1936)
Wouk, Herman, Marjorie Morningstar (1955)
Chapter 8: The Dolls (from the Valley)
Conran, Shirley, Lace (1982)
Delaney, Shelagh, A Taste of Honey (1958)
Kael, Pauline, When the Lights Go Down (1980)
Littlewood, Joan, Joan’s Book (1994)
Seaman, Barbara, Lovely Me: Life of Jacqueline Susann (1987)
Susann, Jacqueline, Valley of the Dolls (1966)
—The Love Machine (1969)
—Once Is Not Enough (1973)
Chapter 9: Cathy Earnshaw
Barker, Juliet, The Brontës (1994)
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (1847)
Carson, Anne, Glass, Irony and God (1992)
Du Maurier, Daphne, Jamaica Inn (1936)
—The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1960)
Eco, Umberto, Reflections on the Name of the Rose (1985)
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola, Women Who Run With The Wolves (1992)
Miller, Lucasta, The Brontë Myth (2001)
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Chapter 10: Flora Poste
Austen, Jane, Emma (1815)
—Persuasion (1818)
Christie, Agatha, The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
Delafield, E.M., Consequences (1919)
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (1861)
Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996)
Gibbons, Stella, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
Heller, Zoë, Notes on a Scandal (2003)
Holtby, Winifred, South Riding (1936)
Ingalls Wilder, Laura, Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
—Little House on the Prairie (1935)
—On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
—By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
—The Long Winter (1940)
—Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
—These Happy Golden Years (1943)
—The First Four Years (1971)
Nicholson, Virginia, Singled Out (2007)
Pym, Hilary and Wyatt, Honor, The Barbara Pym Cookbook (1988)
Pym, Barbara, Excellent Women (1952)
Sackville-West, Vita, All Passion Spent (1931)
Townsend Warner, Sylvia, Lolly Willowes (1926)
—Summer Will Show (1936)
Travers, P.L., Mary Poppins (1934)
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse (1927)
Chapter 11: Scheherazade
Anon., (translated by Lyons, Malcolm and Lyons, Ursula) The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights (2010)
Behn, Aphra, The Lucky Chance (1686)
Child, Lee, Killing Floor (1997)
Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)
Smith, Patti, Just Kids (2010)
Postscript
Ephron, Nora, Heartburn (1983)
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