The New Woman in Fiction and Fact : Fin-de-Siecle Feminisms

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A cultural icon of the fin de siècle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.