Introduction / Aisling Kenny and Susan Wollenberg -- Part I. Contexts for women's Lieder, I -- Blurring the gendered dichotomies: issues of gender and creativity for the female Lied composer / Aisling Kenny -- Absence and dialogue: Pauline von Decker in a performing and cultural context / Briony Cox-Williams -- In pursuit of a single flame: Fanny Hensel's 'musical salon' / Lorraine Byrne Bodley -- Part II. Individual composers and their Lieder. I: Early nineteenth century -- 'Der Jüngling und das Mädchen': Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn and the Zwölf Lieder, op. 9 / Angela Mace Christian -- Functions of piano introductions in the Lieder of Josephine Lang / Harald Krebs -- Clara Schumann's 'Liebst du um Schönheit' and the integrity of a composer's vision / Susan Wollenberg -- Part III. Individual composers and their Lieder. II. Later nineteenth century -- Pauline Viardot-Garcia's 'Ne poj, krasavica, pri mne' and the genre of Russian romance / Kadja Grönke -- (Re)claiming space for Ingeborg von Bronsart's Wildenbruch Lieder, op. 16 / Melinda Boyd -- Cyclic organization, narrative and self-construction in Ethel Smyth's Lieder und Balladen, op. 3 and Lieder, op. 4 / Cornelia Bartsch -- Contrasting concepts of love in two songs by Alma Schindler(-Mahler) and Gustav Mahler / Kadja Grönke -- Part IV. Contexts for women's Lieder, II -- 'Und das hat mit ihrem Singen, Die Lore-Ley gethan': subjectivity and objectification in two Heine settings / Caitlin Miller -- Echoes of the Lied: women's vocal repertoire in nineteenth-century Ireland / Ita Beausang -- Women composers of Lieder: selected sources / Tammy Hensrud, Aisling Kenny and Susan Wollenberg.