Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics -- Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson Part I: Introduction - Professionalizing the domestic -- Megan Faragher 1 Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault's Kind are her Answers and Return to Night -- Victoria Stewart 2 Talking shop: Celia Fremlin and invisible work -- Luke Seaber 3 'some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis': Rebecca West's wartime journalism -- Debra Rae Cohen 4 'Coldly kind': Calculating care in post-war British women's writing -- Emily Ridge Part II - Introduction: Nationalizing gender politics - Melissa Dinsman 5 New world women and the Labour party win in Marghanita Laski's The Village -- Sarah E. Cornish 6 Beyond 'companionate marriage': Elizabeth Taylor's gendered critique of post-war consensus in A View of the Harbour and A Wreath of Roses -- Geneviève Brassard 7 Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal -- Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay 8 The political theory of heaven: Religious nationalism, mystical anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War in Sylvia Townsend Warner's After the Death of Don Juan -- Charles Andrews Part III - Introduction: Women beyond the nation -- Ravenel Richardson 9 'A woman is always a woman!': British women writers and refugees -- Katherine Cooper 10 Families in a time of catastrophe: Anna Gmeyner's Manja, 1920-1938 - Phyllis Lassner 11 'Some other land, some other sea': Attia Hosain's fiction and nonfiction in Distant Traveller - Ambreen Hai Bibliography Index.