Acknowledgments
1. Reading History / Resisting History
2. Greece, Gender, and The Golden Bough
3. History, Ritual, and Gender in Naomi Mitchison's Greece
4. Mana and Narrative in Mary Butts's Greece
5. Cressida's Complexity: Laura Riding Unwrites the White Goddess
6. Masquing the Phallus: Genital Ambiguity in Mary Renault's Historical Novels
7. History as Palimpsest: Gender and Narrative in Bryher's Gate to the Sea
8. Ancient Rome, Gender, and British Imperialism
9. Hostage to History: Naomi Mitchison and Rome
10. When Mana Meets Woman: Mary Butts's Cleopatra
11. Phyllis Bentley: Historical Fiction as Equivocation
12. Bryher the Graeco-Phoenician and Rome
13. "I am his fulfilment": Claiming the Paternal Inheritance
Works Cited
Index