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The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century. In 1894, writer Sarah Grand (1854–1943) used the term "new woman" in an influential article to refer to independent women seeking radical change. In response the English writer Ouida (Maria Louisa Ramé) used the ...
- Introduction
- The Woman Question
- The Odd Women
- The New Woman
- The New Woman in Late Victorian Fiction
- The New Woman Novelists
- Conclusion
- Related Material
- Bibliography
- References
The final two decades of the Victorian era witnessed the beginning of a shift in social attitudes regarding gender relations, which is marked by a steady move away from the pattern of patriarchal male supremacy and female dependence towards the modern pattern of gender equality. One of the manifestations of this movement is the emergence of the New...
The Woman Question, raised by Mary Wollstonecraft in her pamphlet, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), influenced the mid- and late-Victorian feminists. In the 1850s, Harriet Martineau continued vigorously the Woman Question debate in her polemical writings. She urged upper-class women to obtain a proper education and profession in order t...
Single women at marriageable age were perceived as a growing social problem in mid- and late-Victorian England. The phenomenon was noticed and described by William Rathbone Greg, who published in 1862 an essay “Why Are Women Redundant?”. The author argued with genuine concern that according to statistics “[t]here were, in England and Wales, in 1851...
The term “New Woman” was coined by the writer and public speaker Sarah Grand in 1894 (271). It soon became a popular catch-phrase in newspapers and books. The New Woman, a significant cultural icon of the of the fin de siècle, departed from the stereotypical Victorian woman. She was intelligent, educated, emancipated, independent and self-supportin...
The New Woman fiction that appeared in the 1880s and 1890s, does not constitute a single literary genre but rather multiple ones with a woman as a central character. According to Lyn Pykett’s definition, the New Woman fiction consists mainly of works which fit W. T. Stead’s (1894) description of the ‘novel of the modern woman’; they are novels ‘by ...
The New Woman novelists were mostly women, although a few male authors also contributed to the genre. They all called for a redefinition of women’s roles in marriage and society, and opposed the social norms imposed on women. In literature, they criticised the representation of the Ideal Womanhood epitomised at mid-century by William Makepeace Thac...
The New Woman fiction emerged out of Victorian feminist rebellion and boosted debates on such issues as women’s education, women’s suffrage, sex and women’s autonomy. It disappeared with the first-wave feminism after World War One. However, it made a lasting impact on popular imagination and perhaps on the lives of many women in England and elsewhe...
Caine, Barbara. English Feminism, 1780-1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Cunningham, Gail. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel. London: Macmillan Press, 1978. Grand, Sarah. “The New Aspect of the Woman Question”, North American Review, 158 ( Mar. 1894), 271. Greg, William Rathbone. Why Are Women Redundant?London: Trübner, 1869. Helsing...
Mar 2, 2011 · Numerous female, and indeed male, authors become synonymous with the New Woman novel that was produced amid great controversy. Less canonized female authors included Olive Schreiner, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird. By the end of the 1890s the New Woman had more or less disappeared.
Sep 26, 2022 · New Women writers on both sides of the Atlantic were heavily influenced by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian dramatist whose plays often focused on women’s experience. Other male writers of the period who wrote about New Women include George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and George Bernard Shaw.
Oct 15, 2022 · But the twentieth century saw the New Woman movement and its writers swept under the rug. Their contribution to British Decadence has been almost forgotten, even though New Woman authors experimented with literary form, gender and sexuality just as much as male decadents like Oscar Wilde.
This chapter explores the history of the term ‘New Woman’ and its use by women writers and their supporters and detractors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sep 18, 2023 · The ideal of the British New Woman, variously representing feminist, activist, fashion reformer, and writer, has been the subject of renewed critical interest since the late twentieth century.
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