New Woman - Literary Theory and Criticism
WEBSep 26, 2022 · Categories: British Literature, Gender Studies, Literary Terms and Techniques, Short Story. A term coined by British feminist Sarah Grand in an 1894 essay to describe an independent woman who seeks achievement and self-fulfilment beyond the realm of marriage and family.
The New Woman - Victorian Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBMar 2, 2011 · “The ‘New Woman Fiction’ of the 1890’s.” Victorian Studies 17.2 (December 1973): 177–186. Distinguishes two types of New Women: the less radical “purity school” and the more sensitive “slight, pale ‘bachelor’ girl,” more aware of feminine psychology.
New Woman - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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 …
The New Woman Fiction - The Victorian Web
WEBDec 17, 2011 · 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.
New Women in Early 20th-Century America - Oxford Research …
WEBOct 9, 2020 · Referring both to real, flesh-and-blood women, and also to an abstract idea or a visual archetype, the New Woman represented a generation of women who came of age between 1890 and 1920 and challenged gender norms and structures by asserting a new public presence through work, education, entertainment, …
The New Woman | DPLA - Digital Public Library of America
WEBA poster for The New Woman, a comedic play from 1894 which shows one way that society was dealing with changing gender roles. A valentine card showing an anti-suffrage sentiment: “Your vote from me you will not get, I don’t want a preaching suffragette.”
WEBThe furor over the New Woman was strongest in the 1890s, but interest in the type influenced the literary representation of women, by both male and female writers, until well into the twentieth century. Associated issues remained important until after World War I and markedly changed the development of the novel.
WEBThe chapter on New Woman fiction in Kate Flint's The Woman Reader, 1837-1914. takes an even closer look at public debates about the function of women's reading. Literary critics in the 1890s, she points out, believed that fiction had real effects on …
The Gibson Girl as the "New Woman" - The Gibson Girl’s …
WEBWriters in the 1890s and early 1900s described the “New Woman” as an independent and often well-educated, young woman poised to enjoy a more visible and active role in the public arena than women of preceding generations.
How the 'New Woman' blazed a trail of empowerment - BBC
WEBThe "New Woman" was first referred to in the literature and journalism of the late 19th Century. Free spirited and well-educated, she challenged patriarchal conventions of womanhood and sought...