Her attendance was made possible by a bequest left to her by a great-aunt.
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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SG
was not happy at either school, and she describes her experience there as one of deadly dulness.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mona Caird
After over six years of marriage, MC
bore her only child, a son christened at her home in Hampstead: Alister James Henryson Caird.
Ann Heilmann
gives his name thus on the authority of a family...
Literary responses
Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1895, SG
distinguished between her personal beliefs and those professed by her characters: The views of Evadne or Angelica . . . are not necessarily to be accepted as my views...
Literary responses
Sarah Grand
Critic Ann Heilmann
reads this story as a critique of traditional models of girls' education and their emphasis on mechanical drill and rote-learning.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
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Literary responses
Sarah Grand
The Review of Reviews found this article very charming.
qtd. in
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
351
Critic Ann Heilmann
reads it as an effort to render the New Woman as a feminine superstar.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
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...
Literary responses
Sarah Grand
Ann Heilmann
, not without a hint of special pleading, reads SG
's harsh treatment of women who shun marriage or motherhood as an attempt to mediate between her critics and the feminist argument for...
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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Since...
Literary responses
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
When it was performed at a Writing Diasporas Conference held in Swansea, Night's Sunlight generated strong critical response.Tom Cheesman
, of the University of Wales at Swansea, found strong topical interest for Wales...
Literary responses
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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...
Reception
Mona Caird
Where literary historian John Sutherland has called MCone of the most aggressive of the New Woman novelists,
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ann Heilmann
(who has led the scholarly rediscovery of the story of Caird's life) has argued that...
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 Features
Sarah Grand
Through Ideala's moralising, SG
suggests that men must be raised to the moral standards of women if marriage, and by extension society, is to survive. At one point Ideala declares: The future of the race...
Textual Features
Mona Caird
Her protagonist, ambiguous and unsympathetic
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
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public speaker and political agitator Anna Carrington, stands for the spirit of the modern world . . . creedless, searching, restless, ravenous, egotistical, sick and sorry. Anna's protean nature...
Textual Production
Mona Caird
The anonymous novel Lady Hetty, A Story of Scottish and Australian Life, is attributed to MC
by the British Library Catalogue and by critic Patricia Murphy
, but seems to be actually by John Service
Timeline
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Texts
Heilmann, Ann. “(Un)Masking Desire: Cross-Dressing and the Crisis of Gender in New Woman Fiction”. Journal of Victorian Culture, Vol.
5
, No. 1, pp. 83-111.
Grand, Sarah. “General Introduction”. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1, edited by Ann Heilmann, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1-15.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 3. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 4. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.