Margaret Harkness

Flore Janssen is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of LondonLisa C. Robertson is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Warwick

This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women's political activism.

Chronology of Margaret Harkness's lifeMargaret Harkness's connectionsSelected works by Margaret HarknessNote on texts citedIntroduction: Rethinking Margaret Harkness's Significance in Political and Literary HistoryLisa C. Robertson and Flore JanssenPart I: Harkness's Life and Work1. A Law unto Herself: the Solitary Odyssey of M. E. HarknessTerry Elkiss2. Absent Character: from Margaret Harkness to John LawTabitha SparksPart II: In Harkness's London3. Walking Harkness's LondonNadia Valman4. 'The Problem of Leisure/What to do for Pleasure': Women and Leisure Time in A City Girl (1887) and In Darkest London (1891)Eliza Cubitt5. The Vicissitudes of Victory: Margaret Harkness, George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905), and the 1889 Dockworkers' StrikeDavid GloverPart III: Harkness and Genre: Rethinking Slum Fiction6. Soundscapes of the City in Margaret Harkness, A City Girl (1887), Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1885-86), and Katharine Buildings, WhitechapelRuth Livesey7. Margaret Harkness, Novelist: Social Semantics and Experiments in FictionLynne Hapgood8. 'Connie': Melodrama and Tory-SocialismDeborah MutchPart IV: Personal Influences: Harkness and her Contemporaries9. Socialism, Suffering, and Religious Mystery: Margaret Harkness and Olive SchreinerAngharad Eyre10. Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the Transatlantic Social Gospel NetworkHelena GoodwynPart V: After London: Harkness's Life and Work in the Twentieth Century11. Through the Mill: Margaret Harkness on Conjectural History and Utilitarian PhilosophyLisa C. Robertson12. Lasting Ties: Margaret Harkness, the Salvation Army, and A Curate's Promise (1921)Flore JanssenIndex