New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899
- ISBN-10
- 1781445672
- ISBN-13
- 9781781445679
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 1136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-06-01
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Vernon Lee, Brenda Ayres, Karen Yuen
Description
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.
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