MAW
's politics have considerably retarded her recuperation by a rights-and-equality-oriented feminist literary critical movement. As Beth Sutton Ramspeck
has astutely observed: In seizing on her gender politics as the fuel with which to destroy...
Literary responses
Sarah Grand
Elaine Showalter
brought SG
to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book.
Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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Textual Features
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The story is thus a meditation on the nature of crime and punishment, and the title comes to resonate as it becomes clear not only that Vaughn's would-be murderers will remain unpunished, but more soberingly...