New Woman in Fiction and Fact

ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and science, and is currently working on a study of Hardy and science. She is the author of Love, Eugenics and the New Woman: Science, Fiction, Feminism and editor of Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914.CHRIS WILLIS teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published a number of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, and co-edited Twelve Women Detectives, a collection of early crime stories.

• Foreword; L.Pykett List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: A.Richardson & C.Willis 'Nothing but Foolscap and Ink', Inventing the New Woman; T.Schaffer Bicycles and Blue Stockings: Packaging the New Woman for Mass Consumption; C.Willis Horses, Bikes and Automobiles: New Women on the Move; S.Wintle Ibsen, the New Woman and the Actress; S.Ledger 'He-notes': Reconstructing Masculinity; G.Cunningham New Woman and the New Hellenism; A.Ardis Narrating the Hysteric: Fin de Siècle Medical Discourse and Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins ; A.Heilmann Staging the 'Private Theatre': Gender and the Auto-Erotics of Reverie; L.Marcus Scaping the Body: Of Cannibal Mothers and Colonial Landscapes; R.Stott Capturing the Idea: Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man; C.Burdett 'People Talk a Lot of Nonsense about Heredity': Mona Caird and Anti-Eugenic Feminism; A.Richardson The New Woman in Nowhere: Feminism and Utopianism at the Fin de Siècle; M.Beaumont The Next Generation: Stella Browne, the New Woman as Freewoman; L.A.Hall Women in British Aestheticism and the Decadence; R.Gagnier Index

'...extremely welcome and useful...This fine collection will be an asset to both teachers and researchers, and its wide range of sources and arguments make it a perfect text...propel New Woman studies into another new century.' - Thomas Hardy Journal 'Essential reading for anyone interested in the late Victorian period.' - Nineteenth-Century Feminisms '...in a rich variety of discussions of British literature, politics and aesthetics at the fin de siecle, this collection reminds us once more, in the words of Rita Felski, of women's central importance in the analysis of modernity.'... - Times Literary Supplement '...a valuable resource for late Victorian studies and a pleasure to peruse.' - Patricia Murphy, Victorian Studies