Jane Austen and Some Contemporaries (1938) comprises biographies of Jane Austen and seven other female writers of the period. The book was described by The Manchester Guardian as very thorough in its understanding of the people of Austen's time, though a little difficult to follow for a reader unfamiliar with the time period. In this book, Wilson ranks Austen as at least the equal, if not the superior of Mary Wollstonecraft in advocacy of equal rights for women.Wilson (1938), p. ix Wilson's biographer Elaine Harrison comments that this demonstrates Wilson's "preference for a more subtle advocacy of women's claims for equal consideration".
