Foreword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers / Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Translator's Note -- 1. A Tradition of One's Own : A Tradition of Forgetting -- Canons and Sinking Streams -- Women's Literature -- My Own Say -- From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room -- A Portrait Gallery on the Museum's Postcard -- 2. Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879- 1956) : Author's House: Closed -- Private Life - Literary Life -- Woman Writer at the Journal Future -- The Woman Writer's Chances -- Voices in the Novels -- Fracture -- Success in Her Time -- Contemporary Reviews -- The Label of Erotic Lady Author -- Female Voice, Female Verse -- The Author's House Is Open -- 3. In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922- 1991) and the Women's Literary Tradition : The Weeping Poetess -- Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History -- The Female Poet and Objective Poetry -- Woman's Room, Woman's Landscape, Woman's Body -- Self- Liquidation and Recognition -- A Woman's Role -- Statue and Mask -- Women's Poetic Tradition -- Contents -- Entering the Room -- Epilogue -- 4. No Canon for Otherness - The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1854- 1943) : The Enigmatic Monographer -- The Mysterious Bob -- Detective Work -- Painting a Portrait -- Writing between the Lines -- Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon -- Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel -- The Feminist Witch -- The Otherness of the Witch -- Loss of Control -- Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web -- Boundaries, Mirrors -- Reading the Witch -- 5. Mirror, Body, Trauma - A Writer's Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885- 1967) : To Big Girls about Little Girls -- Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer's Wife -- Female Reading -- Body -- Mirror -- Women's Holocaust Memoirs -- Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted -- Setting the Stage for Death -- Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy -- The Writing Woman -- Sitting Down at the Writing Desk -- 6. Museum, Cult, Memory - Locked in the Canon: Lesznai (1885- 1966) : Memory's Volunteers -- The Well- Known Woman Writer -- Museum, Cult, Memory -- Dusting Off a Novel -- Belatedness and Renewal -- Threads and Patterns -- Female Figures -- A Father's Blessing -- The Novel that Remembers -- Nižný Hrušov - Memory's Touch -- Appendix 1: List of Poems and Their Translators -- Appendix 2: A List of Titles of Works Referred to in English and in Hungarian.