Introduction / Jo Malin -- SECTION I: WOMEN THEORIZING HERSPACE - SOLITUDE AND WRITING -- Women alone: the spinster's art / Suzette A. Henke -- With sure and uncertain footing: negotiating the terrain of a solitude in May Sarton's journals / Lisette Schillig -- Unknown women: secular solitude in the works of Alice Koller and May Sarton / Christina Pugh -- Veritable guest to her own self / Lisa Johnson -- Woolf, Hurston, and the house of self / Kristina Deffenbacher -- Domestic politics of Marguerite Duras / Annabelle Cone -- SECTION II: WOMEN'S WRITING SPACES - SOLITUDE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS -- Writing women, solitary space, and the ideology of domesticity / Victoria Boynton -- Car, kitchen, canyon: mother writing / Claudia Mon Pere -- Between the study and the living room: writing alone and with others / Eleanor Berry -- SECTION III: WOMEN WRITING HERSPACE - PERSONAL TAKES ON HOME -- What to make of missing children (a life slipping into fiction) / Jan Wellington -- Little gray house and me / Claudia A. Limbert -- Colors and the light / Maria Brown -- Woman's place / Anne Mamary -- Reframing my life / Mary Rose -- An &/or peace performance / H. Kassia Fleisher &/or Joe Amato