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New Woman Strategies
Recent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siécle fiction of the New Woman. New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the writings of three of its key exponents: Sarah Grand (1854-1943), Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and Mona Caird (1854-1932). The study explores how each writer drew on, mimicked, feminized and ultimately transformed traditional literary and cultural tropes and paradigms: feminity, allegory and mythology.
The Morality of Marriage
These essays examine marriage and the family and challenge the right of men to dominate women.
The Daughters Of Danaus Part I
"The Daughters of Danaus Part I " by Mona Caird delves on the issues that women encounter in a world bound by traditional gender stereotypes. Part I of the narrative introduces the reader to the Mandeville sisters, Lucy, Adeline, and Alethea. The story goes into the complex dynamics of marriage and the expectations placed on women in the late 1800s. As the sisters navigate their various marriages, they are confronted with the oppressive norms of femininity and the restricted options accessible to them. Adeline, in particular, feels the oppressive character of her union, emphasizing the unequal power dynamics in marital partnerships at the period. Caird successfully challenges societal standa...
The Daughters of Danaus
"What always bewilders me," Hadria says, bending over the balustrade among the ivy, "is the enormous gulf between what "might be" and what "is," in human life." In a bleak and solitary district of Scotland, a group of children form a secret society -- the Preposterous Society, they call it -- for the discussing of ideas. Of them, Hadria seems especially to have absorbed the spirit of those mystic northern twilights. A slight, dark-haired girl, she has a pale, rather mysterious face, and large, bewitched-looking eyes -- yet she is full of life, and is an inspiration to her siblings . . . for her thoughts as much as for her actions. Now a new thought disturbs her -- springing from a chance disagreement with a quotation from Emerson. In thinking of the greatness Emerson achieved, she wondered: could a woman do the same? Would circumstances allow a woman to raise herself to the same heights, in a society that expects it of a man? "The Daughters of Danaus" is the moving story of a girl trying to find happiness in a world full of uncomfortable and even cruel realities.
The Daughters Of Danaus Part II
"The Daughters of Danaus Part II " by Mona Caird delves on the issues that women encounter in a world bound by traditional gender stereotypes. Part II of the narrative introduces the reader to the Mandeville sisters, Lucy, Adeline, and Alethea. The story goes into the complex dynamics of marriage and the expectations placed on women in the late 1800s. As the sisters navigate their various marriages, they are confronted with the oppressive norms of femininity and the restricted options accessible to them. Adeline, in particular, feels the oppressive character of her union, emphasizing the unequal power dynamics in marital partnerships at the period. Caird successfully challenges societal stan...
The Wing of Azrael
In 1888, a little-known writer named Mona Caird ignited a firestorm of controversy when she published her essay "Marriage" in The Westminster Review, arguing that modern marriage was a failure. Over the six month period that followed, the journal received some 27,000 letters in response, and only the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper succeeded in finally turning attention away from the debate. The following year, Caird published her three volume novel The Wing of Azrael, which incorporated many of her views on the status of women and the problems with modern marriage. Viola Sedley, an imaginative and independent young woman, finds herself falling in love with the dashing Harry Lancaster...
In Search of the New Woman
A study of the 'New Woman' phenomenon, examining whether British women really achieved the economic independence to challenge social conventions.
Time Is of the Essence
Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers--Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.
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