The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-Siècle Feminisms

by Angelique Richardson (Editor), Chris Willis (Editor)

A cultural icon of the fin de siecle, the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, History, Feminism, Research, Victorian

274 pages, Hardcover

First published March 21, 2001

Reviews

[Charlie]

all the essays were insightful and well planned, explaining clearly the approaches taken towards the new woman at the fin-de-siècle.

[Gina]

I did not actually get to finish this book before I had to give it back to the library, but the first two articles that I read were incredibly helpful for my topic! A great collection of articles on the twentieth-century New Woman.