Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide is a major work of reference analysing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists all over the English-speaking world.

Kathleen Wheeler is a Fellow of Darwin College and a University Lecturer in English at Cambridge. Her recent books include Explaining Deconstruction (1995), 'Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art (1994), and Romanticism, Pragmatism and Deconstruction (1993) available from Blackwell Publishers.