Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sarah Grand
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Standard Name: Grand, Sarah
Birth Name: Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke
Married Name: Frances Elizabeth Bellenden McFall
Indexed Name: Frances E. McFall
Pseudonym: Sarah Grand
Nickname: Madame Grand
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is known as a late nineteenth-century women's rights campaigner and social reformer. She claimed to have coined the term New Woman in her article The New Aspect of the Woman Question, which appeared in the North American Review in March 1894. Her novel Ideala, 1888, was an early example of the New Woman novels which became increasingly popular, if controversial, among both female and male writers at the turn of the century. Her nine novels and three collections of short stories tend toward the didactic; she explicitly acknowledged her belief in writing as instruction rather than as art.
Bonnell, Marilyn. “Sarah Grand and the Critical Establishment: Art for [Wo]man’s Sake”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
14
, No. 1, pp. 123-48.
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She also published a pamphlet on male-female relationships, as well as many articles and lectures on gender issues. She never tried to publish the poetry that she wrote for pleasure.
Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time...
At Tunbridge WellsKT
became a friend of writer and women's rights activist Sarah Grand
(whose real name was Frances Elizabeth Bellenden (Clarke) McFall
).
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Texts
Grand, Sarah. “The Morals of Manner and Appearance”. Humanitarian, Vol.
3
, pp. 87-93.
Grand, Sarah. “The New Aspect of the Woman Question”. North American Review, Vol.
158
, pp. 271-6.
Grand, Sarah. “The New Woman and the Old”. Lady’s Realm, Vol.
4
, pp. 466-70.
Grand, Sarah. “The Revolt of the Daughters”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
35
, No. 203, pp. 23-31.
Grand, Sarah. The Tenor and the Boy. W. Heinemann, 1899.
Grand, Sarah. The Winged Victory. W. Heinemann, 1916.
Grand, Sarah. Two Dear Little Feet. Jarrold and Sons, 1873.
Grand, Sarah. Variety. W. Heinemann, 1922.
Grand, Sarah. “What to Aim At”. The New Party, edited by Andrew Reid, Hodder Brothers, 1894, pp. 355-61.