Book description
"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 si cle, and were not
afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New, in
an irrepressibly new form, the short story.
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 (Oxford University Press, 2003). She is also co-editor of The
New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin-de-Si cle Feminisms (Palgrave,
2001).
