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Cover of Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand

Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand

Edited by Ann Heilmann; Stephanie Forward

  • Published: 28 Sep 2000
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415214100
  • Set ISBN: 9780415214100

Set Contents

Journalistic Writings and Contemporary Reception


‘If you mean to make the world listen to you,’ Thomas Hardy wrote to Florence Henniker in 1893, ‘you must say now what they will all be thinking and saying five and twenty years hence: and if you do that you must offend your conventional friends.’ Sarah Grand, he added, had made this principle into the secret of her success: ‘now that they are all alienated she can write boldly, and get listened to.’

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
  • Journalistic Writings
    • The sexual politics of the New Woman By Sarah Grand
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        The Morals of Manner and Appearance
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        The New Aspect of The Woman Question
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        The Modern Girl
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        The Modern Girl
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        The Man of The Moment
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        The Modern Young Man
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        The Boycott of “Esther Waters”: What Mr. Moore says
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        The Tree of Knowledge
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        A Case for Apology: Letters by Sarah Grand, William Heinemann, and St Clair Baddeley, 17–21 August 1897, unidentified periodical
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        The New Woman and The Old
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        Marriage Questions in Fiction: The standpoint of a typical modern woman
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        Women in the Queen’s reign: Some Notable Opinions
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        On Clubs and the Question of Intelligence
    • Marriage and The Middle-Class Reader By Sarah Grand
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        Court her with Respect
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        Is it Ever Justifiable to Break off an Engagement?
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        On The Choice of a Husband
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        Should Women Propose Marriage?
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        At What age should Girls Marry?
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        Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?
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        Should Married Women Follow Professions?
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        Charade
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        The Case of the Modern Married Woman
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        The Case of the Modern Spinster
    • Public lectures and political commentary By Sarah Grand
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        What to Aim at
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        Mme. Sarah Grand: The Boer War
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        The Human Quest
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        Mere Man
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        The Lounger
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        Notes of a Bookman
    • Autobiographical and miscellaneous By Sarah Grand
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        A Page of Confessions
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        [From] Letter To Professor Viëtor, Nizza
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        A Fragment of a Letter
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        Some Recollections of my Schooldays
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        This is an Ungracious Age
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        In The Days of my Youth: My first success
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        In Search of a Subject
    • Interviews
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        Illustrated Interview: Sarah Grand By Jane T. Stoddart
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        The Woman’s Question: An interview with Madame Sarah Grand By Sarah A. Tooley
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        Sarah Grand on Men and Women
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        Women of Note in the Cycling World: A chat with Mdme. Sarah Grand
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        Some Famous Lady Cyclists
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        Madame Sarah Grand at Home By Sarah A. Tooley
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        The Life Story of Sarah Grand
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        Some Women Novelists By Sarah A. Tooley
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        My Impressions of Sarah Grand By Athol Forbes
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        Bath’s New Mayoress: Surprise and pleasure for citizens
  • Contemporary Reception
    • General
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        New Writers
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        Sarah Grand and Mr. Ruskin
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        Sarah Grand in hot water with the Pioneer Club
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        Madame Sarah Grand
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        Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask Biographical Sketches By Helen C. Black
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        ‘Sarah Grand’
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        People of the Period By A.T. Camden Pratt
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        Novelists of Today—Madame Sarah Grand
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        Battleton Rectory By Quentin Murray
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        Madame Sarah Grand By Haldane McFall
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        Wit and Wisdom of Modern Women Writers: Sarah Grand By Frances Tyrrell-Gill
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        Who’s Who in Literature
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        The Middle Years By Katharine Tynan
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        A Visit to Crowe Hall: Madame Sarah Grand among her treasures and The Mayoress and Her Books
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        The Heavenly Twins: Bath’s mayoress tells their story—Josephine Butler Centenary
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        “Paltry Effort” Unwanted: Mme. Sarah Grand’s plea for Bath workless—permanent shelter need
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        Madame Sarah Grand and Women’s Emancipation By L.A.M. Priestley McCracken
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        Sarah Grand: The Woman and her Work By Charles Whitby
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        [From] My Life By Annie S. Swan
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        [From] Recollections of A Literary Life By Mrs. Desmond Humphreys (Rita)
    • Reviews of articles
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        The Duty of Looking Nice: By the Author of “The Heavenly Twins”
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        The Bawling Brotherhood
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        The Odious English Girl: A Lamentation by Sarah Grand
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        Sarah Grand on the New Woman
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        Sarah Grand on the Modern Young Man: Army versus University
    • Reviews of A Domestic Experiment
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        The Athen Æum
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        A Domestic Experiment By J. Barrow Allen
    • Reviews of Singularly Deluded
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        Singularly Deluded: By the Author of ‘Ideala’ (Blackwood & Sons.)
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        Four Good One-Volume Novels
    • Reviews of Ideala
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        Ideala
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        Ideala
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        The Old Saloon By Margaret O. W. Oliphant
    • Reviews of The Heavenly Twins
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        Foreword: To The Heavenly Twins 1893–1923
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        George Meredith’s Rejection of The Heavenly Twins
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        Sarah Grand Comments on Meredith’s Rejection of her Manuscript
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        Shafts Reviews
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        A Three-Volume Tract By F.M. Bird
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        New Novels: The Heavenly Twins. By Sarah Grand. 3 vols. (Heinemann.)
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        Recent Novels
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        Some Books of the Month: “The Heavenly Twins”
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        New Novels. According to Sample: Heavenly!
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        The Author of “The Heavenly Twins”: [From the Chicago Tribune]
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        The Nation
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        The Gentlewoman: “Sarah Grand”
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        The Strike of a Sex By William Barry
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        The Novel of Modern Women By W. T. Stead
    • Reviews of The Beth Book
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        Some Books of The Month: “The Beth Book”
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        Some New Novels
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        Reviews: Sarah Grand’s latest book By Frank Harris; Frank Danby
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        New Novels: The Beth Book
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        The Beth Book: Being a study from the life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a woman of genius
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        The Beth Book: A weekly record and review for ladies
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        The Beth Book
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        The Dial By W.M. Payne
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        The Month in England By Israel Zangwill
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        To The Author of “Beth”: By Deas Cromarty
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        The Beth Book
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        More Novels
    • Reviews of Babs the Impossible
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        Babs, The Impossible
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        Babs, The Impossible: Flora Mai Holly
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        The Author of “Babs The Impossible” * The material in this article also appears in Arnold Bennett’s ‘Fame and Fiction: An Enquiry into Certain Popularities’, London, Grant Richards, 1891, pp. 71–9.: An inquiry
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        New Novels: Babs the Impossible
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        Impossible By J.E. Hodder Williams
    • Reviews of Our Manifold Nature
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        A Sheaf of Novels
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        Our Manifold Nature: Stories from Life
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        Our Manifold Nature
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        The Academy
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        Our Manifold Nature
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        The Saturday Review
    • Reviews of Adnam’s Orchard
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        “Adnam’s Orchard”
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        Only A Prologue
    • Reviews of The Winged Victory
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        The Winged Victory
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        Fiction
    • Reviews of Variety
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        Sarah Grand’s Stories: Variety
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        New Novels Variety
    • Obituaries
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        Sarah Grand: Novelist of the nineties
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        Sarah Grand, 88, British Novelist: Woman Suffrage leader, who served as Mayor of Bath six times, is dead
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        Death of Madame Sarah Gran: Famous novelist six times Mayoress of Bath and Mme Aarah Grand’s son
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        Funeral of Mme. Sarah Grand: Mayor represents the city
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        Mme. Sarah Grand: Letitia Fairfield [Rebecca West’s sister]
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        Obituary
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        ‘Sarah Grand’: Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale
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        Sarah Grand
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        Died