The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-De-Siècle Feminisms
Richardson, A. / Willis, C.![The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-De-Siècle Feminisms](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/198/19874573/CHSBZCOP0319874573.jpg)
A cultural icon of the fin de siècle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction, as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-cen...