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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

Selected Shorter Writings (1)


It was with didactic shorter fiction that Grand started her literary career in the 1870s and ended it in the 1920s. The final two volumes of this set reproduce a choice of stories from Our Manifold Nature (1894), Emotional Moments (1908), and Variety (1922), as well as some of her early writings not included in her later collections. Texts have been selected and arranged with a view to illustrating how her writing developed over time, from a preoccupation with femininity (in particular the collision of New and Old Woman) to the exploration of the way in which gender intersected with other sociopolitical matters (class, race, Empire, and war; eugenics and social hygiene). This volume concentrates on Grand’s early interest in ‘educating’ her target audience: her first published text, Two Dear Little Feet (1873), which is here reproduced in extracts, may serve as a case in point.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction: Selected Shorter Writings (1) By Ann Heilmann
  • Educating Rita
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      [From] Two Dear Little Feet, London, Jarrold and Sons, [1873], pp. 9–18, 28–34, 52–60, 73–81, 108–15, 124–5. By Sarah Grand
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        As they First Appeared
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        How the Mischief Began
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        The First Consequence of Laura’s Folly and Deceit
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        How to Make “Golden Lilies.”
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        Heels and Nose
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        Conclusion
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      ‘Mamma’s Music Lessons’, Aunt Judy’s Magazine for Young People, June to July 1878, pp. 489–95, 527–36. By Sarah Grand
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        Lesson I
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        Lesson II
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        Lesson III
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        Conclusion
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      ‘School Revisited’, Aunt Judy’s Magazine for Young People, June 1880, pp. 473–81, 537–46. By Sarah Grand
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      ‘The Baby’s Tragedy’, Lady’s Realm, 1897–8, vol. 3, pp. 187–93. Also in Emotional Moments, London, Hurst & Blackett, 1908, pp. 113-42. By Sarah Grand
  • Decadent Women
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      ‘The Yellow Leaf’, Our Manifold Nature, London, Heinemann, 1894, pp. 1–101. By Sarah Grand
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        Part II
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          XI
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      ‘Vanity and Vexation: A Pre-War Study’, Variety, London, William Heinemann, 1922, pp. 67–95. By Sarah Grand
  • Sisterhood
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      ‘Janey, a Humble Administrator’, Our Manifold Nature, London, Heinemann, 1894, pp. 211–45. First published in Temple Bar, 1891, vol. 93, no. 371, pp. 199-218. By Sarah Grand
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      ‘She Was Silent’, Lady’s Realm, 1896–7, vol. 1, pp. 241–9. Also in Emotional Moments, London, Hurst & Blackett, 1908, pp. 143-70. By Sarah Grand
  • Femininity, Subversion, and Role Reversal
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      ‘Should Irascible old Gentlemen be Taught to Knit’, Phil May’s Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894, pp. 5–10. By Sarah Grand
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      ‘The Turning of the Worm’, Variety, London, Heinemann, 1922, pp. 3–63. By Sarah Grand
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