This thesis investigates British and Chinese women’s writing from 1917 to 1962 through a spatial lens. Focusing on gendered spaces in short stories and novels, it examines how fictional configurations interact with realities in modern societies to generate heterotopic sites for the emergence and negotiation of women’s subjectivities. Intersecting feminist and spatial theories, the thesis analyses the ways women writers narrate spatial experiences, reclaim spaces as sites of female agency, and produce imaginative spatial reconfigurations to dismantle dominant patriarchal narratives. Tracing the overlapping histories of Britain and China, this thesis maps women’s shifting spatial experiences across three chronological stages. It begins with the transition from the domestic to the public sphere, moves to the unsettling imperial peripheries during wartime, and concludes with the fluid spatiality of migrant writing. Through a comparative approach, this thesis presents the shared patterns and context-specific divergences in British and Chinese women’s spatial narratives, investigating how the spaces portrayed by women authors engage with material and social realities of the early-to-mid twentieth century. Through a gendered topology of British and Chinese women’s writing, this thesis argues that women writers’ reconfigurations of heterogeneous socio-historical realities produce unique spatial knowledges that account for gendered lived experiences and displace grand historical narratives. Ultimately, this thesis offers a critical framework for comprehending the interplay of gender, space, and histories, challenging both male-centred and Eurocentric paradigms while contributing to interdisciplinary dialogue in comparative literary studies.