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The New Woman At Home And Abroad: Fiction, Female Identity And The British Empire, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
The New Woman At Home And Abroad: Fiction, Female Identity And The British Empire, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
At the height of the British Empire, England was in the midst of major social, economic and moral upheaval. Arising from this commotion was the figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian ‘New Woman.’Her appearance on the domestic front provoked further confusion and ambiguity about gender that had repercussions for empire. Building on a previous article that explored how the many vitriolic attacks onthe British New Woman in the popular press and in popular and bestselling fiction were linked to anxiety about the future of the Empire, this essay examines, not the threat to nation and empire represented by the …
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
During her lifetime, Marie Corelli (pseudonym for Mary Mackay) managed to attain what would today be referred to as superstar status. According to one of her biographers, Brian Masters, Corelli reigned as the bestselling writer in the world for almost thirty years, during which time at least thirty of the novels she published were ‘world best-sellers.’ Her romances, blending sensationalism with transcendentalism, outsold those of all her contemporary literary rivals, and she broke all previous publishing records by selling an average of 100,000 copies of her books per year. It was not unusual to hear of thousands fighting to touch …
A "Wet Blanket Of Intolerable Routine And Deadly Domesticity": The Feelings, Freedoms And Frustrations Of Hilda Lessways, Arnold Bennett's 'Ordinary' New Woman, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
A "Wet Blanket Of Intolerable Routine And Deadly Domesticity": The Feelings, Freedoms And Frustrations Of Hilda Lessways, Arnold Bennett's 'Ordinary' New Woman, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In a 1911 New York Times review of the second book in Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger trilogy , Hilda Lessways, the reviewer asserted that, as with the entire novel, ‘The attitude of always expecting something tremendous, of being on the eve of ultimate adventure, is the perpetual state of mind of Hilda herself.’ Bennett’s job, as the reviewer saw it, was to reveal this ‘young person’ to his readers. And this he argues Bennett did well for, he adds, ‘here is the girl, her inmost personality, so far as she can see it herself and so far as Mr. Bennett can …