Ann Heilmann

Her protagonist, ambiguous and unsympathetic 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...

Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...

Where literary historian John Sutherland has called MCone of the most aggressive of the New Woman novelists,Ann Heilmann (who has led the scholarly rediscovery of the story of Caird's life) has argued that...

After over six years of marriage, MC bore her only child, a son christened at her home in Hampstead: Alister James Henryson 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

One of MC 's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1989).

MC published The Pathway of the Gods, A Novel, which Ann Heilmann regards as an interrogation of the role of the New Man and an attack on the myth of women as willing martyrs.

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...

SG first appeared in print with her novel Two Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.

Her attendance was made possible by a bequest left to her by a great-aunt.SG was not happy at either school, and she describes her experience there as one of deadly dulness.

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...

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...

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...

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...