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Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914
Contributors Variou
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Description for Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914
Paperback. A collection of stories, which examine society through the eyes of the woman, as she encountered choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siecle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New. Editor(s): Richardson, Angelique. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 366.
A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather. Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered new choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love. Women Who Did charts a rebellion that was social, sexual and literary. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siecle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge ... Read more
A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather. Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered new choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love. Women Who Did charts a rebellion that was social, sexual and literary. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siecle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
365g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141441566
SKU
V9780141441566
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Ref
99-1
About Contributors Variou
Angelique Richardson is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction and is the author of Love, Eugenics and the New Woman: Science, Fiction, Feminism (OUP, 2003). She is also co-editor of The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin-de-Siecle Feminisms (Palgrave, 2001). She writes regularly for the TLS, has written a ... Read more
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