Alice to the Lighthouse

• Part I
• Children's Books, Childhood and Modernism

• Classifying the Child

• Childhood and Phenomenology

• Educating the Parent

• Children and Post-Impressionist Painting

• Child Sexuality

• The Child and Her Book

• Part II
• The Voice of the Author

• Piety, Improvement and Protest

• The Burden of Instruction

• Author, Parent, Preacher

• Part III
• Virginia Woolf and the Irreverant Generation

• Lewis Carroll

• Accomplices: Writer and Reader

• Egoistic Author

• Rebels

• Eminent Victorains

• Sacred Texts

• Part IV
• Death

• Death-Bed Scenes

• Children and Death

• Mrs, Ramsay's Brackets

• Part V
• The Medium of Art

• Language

• Form

• Part VI
• Making Space for a Child

• "What is Reality?"

• Time-Travel and Territory

• Psychoanalysis and Conscience

• Narrative and Power

• Part VII
• The Literary and the Literal

• Places

• Pioneers

• Design and Vision

• Solidity and Thin Paint

• Notes

• Select Bibliography

• Index