qtd. in
Grand, Sarah. “Introduction; Chronology”. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2, edited by Stephanie Forward, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1 - 12; 13.
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Leisure and Society | Sarah Grand | SG
now joined the Pioneer Club
(founded by temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd
in 1892), which she called a club of women engaged in philanthropic pursuits, moral and religious. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. “Introduction; Chronology”. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2, edited by Stephanie Forward, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1 - 12; 13. 4 |
Literary responses | Sarah Grand | Kersley
comments that most of SG
's male characters personify varying degrees of vice. Their lack of proper self control and its possible outcome makes any really masculine character suspect, and leads her heroines to... |
Literary responses | Sarah Grand | After this experience SG
decided not to read reviews in the future: I have literally banished all newspaper cuttings about myself. She felt that this was the only to protect her writing ability, for, if... |
politics | Sarah Grand | In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand... |
Reception | Sarah Grand | Reviewers in the Independent and The Bookman disliked this novel. The Bookman called it vulgar, and worse than vulgar. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 518 |
Reception | Sarah Grand | As well as compiling quotations from Grand, Gladys Singers-Bigger
composed a seven-volume record of sixteen years of SG
's life as Ideala's Gift: The Record of a Dear Friendship. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 134 |
Reception | 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. 220 |
Residence | Sarah Grand | After her husband's death SG
moved from London to the area of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and soon afterwards settled at the Grey House, in Langton, a couple of miles outside Tunbridge Wells... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | According to SG
's biographer Gillian Kersley
, her storyThe Tenor and the Boy, originally published as an Interlude in her novelThe Heavenly Twins, 1893, appeared as a volume on its... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | SG
first appeared in print with her novelTwo Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots. Scholars like Gillian Kersley
, Ann Heilmann
... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | Once she was successful, even notorious, for The Heavenly Twins, SG
made her first foray into non-fiction with The Morals of Manner and Appearance in the Humanitarian, the first of her many articles... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand |
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