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.
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Since...
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...