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New Woman

Index New Woman

The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late nineteenth century and had a profound influence on feminism well into the twentieth century. [1]

87 relations: A Doll's House, Alice Freeman Palmer, Androcentrism, Angelica Kauffman, Ann Veronica, Anna Lea Merritt, Anna Lombard, Annie Sophie Cory, Athena, Aurora Leigh, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Barnard College, Belinda (Edgeworth novel), Blackwood's Magazine, Bram Stoker, Bryn Mawr College, Candida (play), Charles Courtney Curran, Charles Dana Gibson, Charles Reade, Child, Civilization, Confucianism, Daisy Miller, Dracula, Dynamo, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Ella D'Arcy, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Emma Lampert Cooper, Ewha Womans University, Feminism, First-wave feminism, Flapper, George Bernard Shaw, George Egerton, Gibson Girl, H. G. Wells, Hedda Gabler, Heidi, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Arthur Jones, Henry James, History of feminism, Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Jessie Willcox Smith, Josephine Preston Peabody, Kate Chopin, Kim Iryeop, ..., Liberty, List of territories occupied by Imperial Japan, Madame Bovary, March 1st Movement, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Heaton Vorse, Max Beerbohm, Modern girl, Mona Caird, Mount Holyoke College, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Na Hye-sok, New York City, Olive Schreiner, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Pink-collar worker, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Puck (magazine), Radcliffe College, Robert Lewis Reid, Rochester, New York, Rose O'Neill, Sarah Grand, Seven Sisters (colleges), Sheila Rowbotham, Smith College, Suffragette, Sydney Grundy, The Portrait of a Lady, The Story of a Modern Woman, Vassar College, Violet Oakley, Virtue, Wellesley College, Winnifred Harper Cooley, Women in the Victorian era, 1894 in literature. Expand index (37 more) »

A Doll's House

A Doll's House (Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norway's Henrik Ibsen.

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Alice Freeman Palmer

Alice Freeman Palmer (February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator.

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Androcentrism

Androcentrism (ancient Greek, ἀνήρ, "man, male") is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing a masculine point of view at the center of one's world view, culture, and history, thereby culturally marginalizing femininity.

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Angelica Kauffman

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.

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Ann Veronica

Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909.

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Anna Lea Merritt

Anna Massey Lea Merritt (1844–1930) was an American painter.

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Anna Lombard

Anna Lombard is a New Woman novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross.

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Annie Sophie Cory

Annie Sophie Cory (1 October 1868 – 2 August 1952) was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e), Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin.

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Athena

Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Aurora Leigh

Aurora Leigh (1856) is an epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century.

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Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City, New York, United States.

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Belinda (Edgeworth novel)

Belinda is an 1801 novel by the Irish writer Maria Edgeworth.

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

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Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College (Welsh) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Candida (play)

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant.

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Charles Courtney Curran

Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American painter.

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Charles Dana Gibson

Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867 – December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist.

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Charles Reade

Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.

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Child

Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty.

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Civilization

A civilization or civilisation (see English spelling differences) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification imposed by a cultural elite, symbolic systems of communication (for example, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life.

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Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Dynamo

A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett,; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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Elizabeth Shippen Green

Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator.

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Ella D'Arcy

Ella D'Arcy (Constance Eleanor Mary Byrne D'Arcy) (1857 – 1937) was a short fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Ella Hepworth Dixon

Ella Nora Hepworth Dixon (pen name, Margaret Wynman; 1857–1932) was an English writer, novelist and editor.

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Emma Lampert Cooper

Emma Lampert Cooper (February 24, 1855 – July 30, 1920) was a painter from Rochester, New York, described as "a painter of exceptional ability".

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Ewha Womans University

Ewha Womans University is a private women's university in Seoul, South Korea founded in 1886 by Mary F. Scranton under Emperor Gojong.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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First-wave feminism

First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world.

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Flapper

Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George Egerton

Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (14 December 1859 – 12 August 1945), better known by her pen name George Egerton, (pronounced Edg'er-ton) was a New Woman writer and feminist.

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Gibson Girl

The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States and Canada.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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Heidi

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning (Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How she used what she learned (Heidi kann brauchen, was sie gelernt hat).

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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Henry Arthur Jones

Henry Arthur Jones (20 September 1851 – 7 January 1929) was an English dramatist.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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History of feminism

The history of feminism is the chronological narrative of the movements and ideologies aimed at equal rights for women.

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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (December 10, 1850 – August 5, 1936) was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist and illustrator.

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Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American female illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration.

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Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.

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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (/ʃəʊpan/, born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.

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Kim Iryeop

Kim Il-yeop or Kim Iryŏp, (28 April 1896 - 28 May 1971) was a Korean writer, journalist, feminist activist, and Buddhist nun.

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Liberty

Liberty, in politics, consists of the social, political, and economic freedoms to which all community members are entitled.

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List of territories occupied by Imperial Japan

This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan.

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Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary (full French title: Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province) is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.

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March 1st Movement

The March 1st Movement, also known as Sam-il (3-1) Movement (Hangul: 삼일 운동; Hanja: 三一 運動) was one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the rule of Korea by Japan from 1910 into 1945.

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Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature.

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Mary Heaton Vorse

Mary Heaton Vorse O'Brien (1874–1966) was an American journalist, labor activist, social critic, and novelist.

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Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature Max.

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Modern girl

(also shortened to moga) were Japanese women who followed Westernized fashions and lifestyles in the 1920s.

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Mona Caird

Alice Mona Caird (née Alice Mona Alison, married name Alice Mona Henryson-Caird) (1854–1932) was a British novelist and essayist whose feminist views sparked controversy in the late 19th century.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mrs. Warren's Profession

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Na Hye-sok

Na Hyeseok (28 April 1896 – 10 December 1948) was a Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter, educator, and journalist.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.

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Pilgrim Hall Museum

The Pilgrim Hall Museum at 75 Court Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts is the oldest public museum in the United States in continuous operation, having opened in 1824.

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Pink-collar worker

In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a pink-collar worker refers to someone working in the care-oriented career field or in jobs historically considered to be "women’s work." This may include jobs in nursing, teaching, secretarial work, waitressing, or child care.

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Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plymouth (historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Puck (magazine)

Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College.

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Robert Lewis Reid

Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American Impressionist painter and muralist.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Rose O'Neill

Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer.

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Sarah Grand

Sarah Grand (10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an Irish feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922.

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Seven Sisters (colleges)

The Seven Sisters was a name given to seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges.

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Sheila Rowbotham

Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943) is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Suffragette

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.

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Sydney Grundy

Sydney Grundy (23 March 1848 – 4 July 1914) was an English dramatist.

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The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881.

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The Story of a Modern Woman

The Story of a Modern Woman is a novel written by English author Ella Hepworth Dixon.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States.

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Violet Oakley

Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was an American artist.

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Virtue

Virtue (virtus, ἀρετή "arete") is moral excellence.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Winnifred Harper Cooley

Winnifred Harper Cooley (October 2, 1874 – October 20, 1967) was a U.S. author and lecturer.

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Women in the Victorian era

The status of women in the Victorian era was often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions.

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1894 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1894.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Woman

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