Ann Heilmann

Critic Ann Heilmann reads this story as a critique of traditional models of girls' education and their emphasis on mechanical drill and rote-learning.

The Review of Reviews found this article very charming. Critic Ann Heilmann reads it as an effort to render the New Woman as a feminine superstar. She sees SG as seducing female middle-class...

The Review of Reviews perhaps disingenuously took SG 's acknowledgement of faults in The Modern Girl to mean that she deplored the emergence of this type: Mrs. Lynn Linton will chortle for joy when she...

Ann Heilmann has noted, however, that the novel concludes as Max forgets all about her painting career (her reason for impersonating a man) once she has married a colleague and her voluntary return to feminine...