Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
24 'But,' persisted Harry, 'I want to know what is meant in common parlance by a “gentleman.”' 'Ask me to express one of the 'ultimate elements' (which you are always prosily talking about) in terms of something else,' returned her ...
The events of 1895 have encouraged critics such as Richard Ellmann and Holbrook Jackson to cast the 1890s as a decade of two halves – the flowering of decadence up until the Wilde trials followed by its rapid decline – while Jonathan ...
... the frontispiece to Holbrook Jackson's book, The Eighteen Nineties. The expression of the face framed between the amazingly long-fingered hands must, I think, have been also assumed, for it is sullen, brooding, and contemptuous.
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
Miss Brown
Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Andrew King, Paul March-Russell. Khristof of Karstein? She was safe from all risk ... 'I am very glad,' she said simply, with that perfect intuition which had so often served her purpose so well: 'and now go.
BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA New woman fiction, 1881–1899. Part 2, Volumes 4–6. 1. Women – Social conditions – Fiction. I. Pirkis, Catherine Louisa, 1839–1910. Experiences of Loveday Brooke, lady detective. II.
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before. This title includes Kith and Kin (1881), Miss Brown and The Wing of Azrael.
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899: Volumes 4-6