Passionate portrayal of things to come : Doris Lessing's recent fiction / Sydney Janet Kaplan -- Wages of intellectuality... and the fictional wagers of Iris Murdoch / Kingsley Widmer -- Olivia Manning : witness to history / Harry J. Mooney, Jr. -- Women victimized by fiction : living and loving in the novels of Barbara Pym / Barbara Brothers -- Cold enclosures : the fiction of Susan Hill / Rosemary Jackson -- Clinical world of P.D. James / Bernard Benstock -- Women and children first : the novels of Margaret Drabble / Gail Cunningham -- Muriel Spark : the novelist as dandy / William McBrien -- Edna O'Brien: a kind of Irish childhood / Darcy O'Brien -- Masculine world of Jennifer Johnston / Shari Benstock.