The Fin de Siècle: 1890s & Late Victorian Culture

New Woman Fiction: 1881-1899

“The figure of the ‘New Woman’ is notoriously hard to pin down. She was variously derided in the late nineteenth century press as mannish and unattractive, over educated and hysterical, unsexed and oversexed. The very ambivalence of this image of the New Woman was often useful to her opponents, who had a seemingly endless range of stereotypes to fall back on in discussing her exploits.

A Collection of New Woman Fiction

Pickering and Chatto Publishers

Part I

Volume 1
Jessie Fothergill Kith and Kin (1881) edited by Brenda Ayres.

Volume 2
Vernon Lee Miss Brown (1884) edited by Karen Yuen

Volume 3
Mona Caird The Wing of Azrael (1889) edited by Alexandra Warwick.

Part II

Volume 4
C L Pirkis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) edited by Adrienne E Gavin.

Volume 5
Annie E Holdsworth The Years that the Locust Hath Eaten (1895); Annie E Holdsworth Joanna Traill, Spinster (1894) edited by SueAnn Schatz.

Volume 6
Netta Syrett Nobody’s Fault (1896) edited by Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Part III

Volume 7
Ouida The Massarenes (1897) edited by Andrew King.

Volume 8
George Egerton The Wheel of God (1898) edited by Paul March-Russell.

Volume 9
Mary Cholmondeley Red Pottage (1899) edited by Carolyn W de la L Oulton.

“Gibson Girls.”

Courtesy Carrie Crockett.

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“The New Woman.” From Punch, Vol. 108.

Poster for The New Woman, by Sydney Grundy.

John Singer Sargent’s portrait of “Mrs. Charles Thursby” (circa 1897-1898)— includes characteristics of the “new woman,” a term applied to women at the turn of the 19th century who demanded greater voice and a place in the public sphere

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HART, M. T. The New Woman. [Promotional poster] 21 x 12 inches. No place, no date Depicting a woman in bloomers pausing during a bike ride to smoke a cigarette. Possibly an advertisement for E. Lynn Linton’s “The New Woman,” New York: Meriam, 1895.

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The New Woman, by Edward Lamson Henry. Circa 1890’s.

C. E. Jensen

1890’s caricature of gender role reversals (satire of the New Woman), with a smoking woman aggressively pursuing a coy man

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Artist: Felicien Rops.

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New Woman Fiction: 1881-1899

A Collection of New Woman Fiction