Introduction - Jo Devereux Part I: Natural history illustration, 1855-90 1 Jemima Blackburn 'believed in nothing': horror, religion, and animal illustration - Bethan Stevens 2 Eleanor Vere Boyle's 'fantaisies' and enchanted gardens - Laurence Talairach 3 I 'wander and wonder and paint': the botanical illustrations of Marianne North - Nancy V. Workman Part II: Book illustration, cartoons, and caricature, 1859-1901 4 The ABCs of Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon: new views on her manuscript, 'An Illustrated Comic Alphabet' - Margo L. Beggs 5 'A genuine talent': Mary Ellen Edwards - Simon Cooke 6 From London Society to The British Workwoman: Edith Hume's journey to religious domestic illustration via Katwijk and Scheveningen beaches - Deborah Canavan 7 'This woman who predominated in all things': Alice Barber Stephens's drawings of Dorothea in George Eliot's Middlemarch, 1899 - Nancy Marck Cantwell 8 Florence and Adelaide Claxton: frames, doorways, and domestic satire - Jo Devereux 9 Marie Duval: the methods and politics of attribution - Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite Part III: Illustration at the fin de siècle, 1890-1908 10 Romance fiction, folk tales, and poetry: Amy Sawyer and the Arts and Crafts movement - Kate Holterhoff 11 Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale as a black-and-white artist - Pamela Gerrish Nunn 12 'The great within': the illustrations of Jessie Marion King for Seven Happy Days - Carey Gibbons 13 Working against 'that thunderous clamour of the steam press': Pamela Colman Smith and the art of hand-coloured illustration - Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and Marion Tempest Grant 14 Olive Allen and the graphic nonchalance of the Modern Girl, illustrated - Jaleen Grove Index.