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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part One: Fin de Siècle -- 1. The Launch -- 2. Gabriela's Deceptions -- 3. The Forerunner -- 4. Yellow Book Types -- 5. 'Hast thou slain the Yallerbock?' -- 6. Office Wars -- 7. A Paris Mystery -- 8. Mabel's Urge for Fame -- 9. Netta Syrett and the Flat of Girls -- 10. Ménie Muriel Dowie's Celebrity -- 11. Evelyn Sharp and the Last Volume -- Part Two: Commence de Siècle -- 12. Family Battles -- 13. Charlotte Mew: Love Rebuffed -- 14. Ella D'Arcy: 'Not dead yet' -- 15. Netta Syrett's Drama Curtailed -- 16. Mabel's War -- 17. Unresting Dragonfly -- 18. George Egerton: 'This life is dry rot' -- 19. Suffragette Warrior -- 20. The Ship with Black Sails -- Appendix: List of All Women Writers for the Yellow Book -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index.