Introduction: ‘Woman is Now Beginning to Take Her Place’; Part I: Practice, Partnership, Politics; 1. Mary and George Watts; 2. Evelyn and William De Morgan; 3. Self/Portraits; Part II: Artists’ Writings: Private and Published; 4. Women Artists’ Diaries; 5. Inscribing the Female Body; Part III: Artists’ Readings: Literary Sources and Subjects; 6. Feminist Readings and Poetic Paintings; 7. The Metamorphic Mermaid in Fairytales and Feminism; Conclusion.