A carefully sequenced library of fifteen novels that traces the development of women's fiction from Jane Austen's social comedy to the Brontës' emotional intensity, Elizabeth Gaskell's social vision and Louisa May Alcott's enduring family chronicle. Included works: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion (Jane Austen) — The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette (Charlotte Brontë) — Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) — Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) — North and South (Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell) — Little Women (Louisa May Alcott).