Introduction: Wives and daughters leaving home : indifferent and antagonistic new women
An unsympathetic network : female defiance as narrative force in Daniel Deronda
Antagonistic boundaries : the woman professional's retro-progress in The odd women
Settler colonial feminism : unsustainable indifference and antagonism in The story of an African farm
In solidarity with empire : the professional wife and mother in Dracula
Conclusion: Antagonism and indifference : twenty-first-century affordances.