Product 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 siècle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New, in an irrepressibly new form, the short story.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17517 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

About the Author
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 (OUP, 2003). She is also co-editor of The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin-de-Siècle Feminisms (Palgrave, 2001). She writes regularly for the TLS, has written a number of entries for the New Dictionary of National Biography , and reviews for the leading international journals in nineteenth-century studies, including Victorian Studies and the Journal of Victorian Culture. 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-Siècle Feminisms (Palgrave, 2001).

Customer Reviews

A Review of "Women Who Did"
"Women Who Did" was a revelation. Amazingly enough the part I enjoyed most was the introduction. Richardson's background is highly informative but at no time do you feel you've been forced into reading an introduction which is irrelevant to the text. The stories themselves are a delightful mix combining humour with a very emphatic message. At the end of every story i was expecting the 'happy ever after' ending that you might find in 'Chick Lit' but it never came. There is a definite feel of feminism about the text but this is diminshed by the presence of male authors. A book to read from cover to cover or dip into when you want a story of no more than ten pages.