Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "What a heavenly place this is"
  • A brief note on the history of Hayford Hall / Malcolm Dunstan
  • "Daisy Miller with rather more balls" : biographical notes on Peggy Guggenheim / Mary Dearborn
  • Framed liminalities : Antonia White's Beyond the glass and Emily Coleman's The shutter of snow / Julie Vandivere
  • Antonia White and the subversion of literary impotence at Hayford Hall / Sandra Jeffery
  • "They sat and roared" : Hayford Hall's performance in the diary of Emily Coleman / Elizabeth Podnieks
  • The innocent children of Nightwood and Hayford Hall / David Copeland
  • "Melancholia, melancholia" : changing black bile into black ink in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Martina Stange
  • Site also of angst and spiritual search / Sandra Chait
  • Conclusion : beyond Buckfastleigh.