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The editors' aims are to offer "a very detailed picture of the range and variety of women's writing between 1900 and 1950" and "an extensive survey of the secondary materials in the form of an annotated bibliography." Biographies of 185 authors range from major figures such as Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson to the more obscure, such as Barbara Comyns and Winifred Watson. Notable omissions in a volume claiming to cover all genres include the poet Elizabeth Jennings, the novelist E. M. Almedingen and literary critics and scholars such as Caroline Spurgeon and Edith Morley. Overall, the great majority of entries are of high quality. Entry lengths are probably restricted because of an editorial decision to include "literary, intellectual and historical contexts." Rather than cover these in the individual author entries, one-third of the main text consists of 76 "topic entries." Some have nothing whatsoever to do with gender, but most are highly informative. Three useful appendixes are titled "Pseudonyms," "Minor Writers," and "Timeline." Given the scope of its coverage, this volume has no rivals. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. W. Baker Northern Illinois University