"it"" by ""The Spectator"". ""Ann Veronica"" was included in the Modern Library in 1917, the year the publishing company was founded. Subsequent Modern Library editions were published in 1926, 1928, and 1933. ""Ann Veronica"" was made into a musical in 1969; both the musical and one of the numbers within are titled ""Ann Veronica"". It was filmed for television in 1952 with Margaret Lockwood in the title role. Ann Veronica Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. ""Ann Veronica"" describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, ""a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty"", against"
"happy couple four years and four months later living in London. Capes has become a successful playwright, and Ann Veronica is pregnant and has reconciled with her family. ""Ann Veronica"" created a sensation when published in the fall of 1909 because of the feminist sensibilities of the heroine and also because of the affair Wells was having with Amber Reeves, the woman who inspired the novel's eponymous character. Although the novel now seems very tame, ""Ann Veronica"" was considered a scandalous work by many in its day and was denounced as ""capable of poisoning the minds of those who read"
"marry Rivers, he arranged it with H.G, but I have always thought it the best that could possibly have happened"". Wells wrote the ""roman à clef"", ""Ann Veronica"" based on his relationship with Reeves. The novel was rejected by his publisher, Frederick Macmillan, because of the possible damage it would do; however, T. Fisher Unwin published it in the autumn of 1909, when gossip concerning Wells was rampant. Wells later wrote that while the character of Ann Veronica was based on Amber, the character he believed came closest to her was Amanda in his novel ""The Research Magnificent"". On 31"
"Sarah Grand, Mona Caird, George Egerton, Ella D'Arcy and Ella Hepworth Dixon. Some examples of New Woman literature are Victoria Cross's ""Anna Lombard"" (1901), Dixon's ""The Story of a Modern Woman"" and H. G. Wells's ""Ann Veronica"" (1909). Kate Chopin's ""The Awakening"" (1899) also deserves mention, especially within the context of narratives derived from Flaubert's ""Madame Bovary"" (1856), both of which chronicle a woman's doomed search for independence and self-realization through sexual experimentation. The emergence of the fashion-oriented and party-going flapper in the 1920s marks the end of the New Woman era (now also known as First-wave feminism). Women artists"
"particularly ironic style, and ""The Burnt Offering"" (1909) – took as their theme the subject of Indian nationalism. In these she was able to draw on the similarities of experience between her colonised homeland and her colonised adopted land. ""Set in Authority"", which was titled ""The Viceroy"" until very near to publication, stands out as a notable failure in her commercial sense and an act perhaps of stubbornness, being an overtly political novel published immediately after the poor reception of ""The Imperialist"", which itself had been a novel about politics. Its central character, Anthony Andover, is now known to have"
"against all their principles, they immediately married and through all his eccentricities and unfaithfulness she made him a dutiful efficient wife. 'His early writings in the Jules Verne tradition were written, he said, to gain popularity, and money so that he could let himself go later and give full expression to his freelove and Socialist ideas. Stretching a point, Ann Veronica - if I dare mention such a naughty book - was believed by many to be Amy Robbins. Though most of his books were best-sellers he writes to me in 1896 of his struggles with 'with publishers and such-like"
"identity, sexuality, and gender issues. Key writings in the recent past include Claudia Rankine's careful skewering of race related microaggressions in ""Citizen,"" Dorothea Laskey's ""ferocious confession"" in Rome for example, and Bhanu Kapil's challenge the violent inherent in structures of language and institutions. Eighteenth century advocate for women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851), put great emphasis on the power of the poetic imagination as a liberator tool, and many nineteenth century British women writers were inspired by Wollstonecraft to use poetry to enter public debates about gender roles, poverty, and slavery. The verse-novel ""Aurora Leigh"" (1856) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)"
"Ann Vickers Ann Vickers is a 1933 novel by Sinclair Lewis. It is made into a 1933 drama film of the same name directed by John Cromwell, adapted by Jane Murfin, and starring Irene Dunne, Bruce Cabot, Walter Huston, and Conrad Nagel. The novel follows the heroine, Ann Vickers, from tomboy school girl in the late 19th century American Midwest, through college, and into her forties. It charts her postgraduate suffragist phase in the early 20th century. As a suffragist, she is imprisoned, and her experiences there lead her to become interested in social work and prison reform. As a"
"Sarah Anne Curzon Sarah Anne Curzon née Vincent (1833 – November 6, 1898) was a British-born Canadian poet, journalist, editor, and playwright who was one of ""the first women's rights activists and supporters of liberal feminism"" in Canada. During her lifetime, she was best known for her closet drama, ""Laura Secord: The Heroine of 1812"", ""one of the works that made Laura Secord a household name."" She was born Sarah Anne Vincent in Birmingham, England, the daughter of George Philips Vincent, a wealthy glass manufacturer, and his wife. As a girl she was educated by tutors and at private girls'"
"Adriana Cavarero Adriana Cavarero (born 1947 in Bra, Italy) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and Harvard. Cavarero is widely recognized in Italy, Europe and the English-speaking world for her writings on feminism and theories of sexual difference, on Plato, on Hannah Arendt, on theories of narration and on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and literature. Cavarero was educated at"
"her first novel, Una Donna (A Woman) under her pen name in 1906. Today the novel is widely acknowledged as Italy’s premier feminist novel. Her writing mixes together autobiographical and fictional elements. Maria Messina was a Sicilian writer who focused heavily on Sicilian culture with a dominant theme being the isolation and oppression of young Sicilian women. She achieved modest recognition during her life including receiving the Medaglia D’oro Prize for “La Mérica”. Anna Banti was born in Florence in 1895. She is most well known for her short story Il ""Coraggio Delle Donne"" (""The Courage of Women"") which was"
"to Cavarero, Inclinations, translated by Amanda Minervini and Adam Sitze (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016), vii. 5. Ibid., 14. Adriana Cavarero Adriana Cavarero (born 1947 in Bra, Italy) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and Harvard. Cavarero is widely recognized in Italy, Europe and the English-speaking world for her writings on feminism and theories of sexual difference, on Plato, on Hannah Arendt, on"
"and ""Rosanna"" into Irish in the 1830s. Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the second child of"
"Anne K. Mellor Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (born July 15, 1941) is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at UCLA; she specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and gender studies. She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten female Romantic writers into literary history, and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled ""Romanticism and Feminism"". Mellor received her BA, summa cum laude, from Brown University in 1963 and her MA in 1964 and her PhD in 1968 in English"
"Anna Lombard Anna Lombard is a New Woman novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross. First published in 1901, it is based on the idea that it takes a New Man as well to form a perfect union of the sexes. Set exclusively in the British Indian Empire (mainly India, but also Burma) in the final years of the 19th century, the story is told by Gerald Ethridge, a young, high-ranking member of the Indian Civil Service. Anna Lombard, the 21-year-old daughter of a general, has just arrived from England to join her father when she is introduced"
"""In the ultimate I know, though I cannot prove my knowledge in any way whatever, that everything is right and all things mine."" ""First and Last Things"" was written at a time when Wells's ""private life was to a considerable degree in turmoil."" Amber Reeves, his lover, who inspired Ann Veronica and would in 1909 bear a daughter by Wells, was a brilliant student of philosophy at Cambridge University's Newnham College. Indeed, some passages of ""First and Last Things"" contain criticisms of Wells's ideas by a ""friend"" who is doubtless Amber Reeves. The origins of the ""First and Last Things"""
"Annie Kenney Ann ""Annie"" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie Baldock. Kenney attracted the attention of the press and public in 1905 when she and Christabel Pankhurst were imprisoned for several days for assault and obstruction, after heckling Sir Edward Grey at a Liberal rally in Manchester on the issue of votes for women. The incident is credited with inaugurating a new phase in the struggle for women's suffrage in the UK,"
"Ana de Castro Osório Ana de Castro Osório (18 June 1872 – 23 March 1935) was a Portuguese feminist, active in the field of children's literature and political Republicanism. Osório was born into a well-off family on June 18, 1872, her mother being Mariana Osório de Castro Cabral e Albuquerque and her father Judge João Baptista de Castro. She was influenced by her parents immense library and became a writer by age 23. In 1889, Osório married republican poet Paulino de Oliveira, with whom she had two children. In 1905, she wrote the feminist manifesto ""Às Mulheres Portuguesas"" (""To Portuguese"
"Mary Anne Warren Mary Anne Warren (August 23, 1946 – August 9, 2010) was an American writer and philosophy professor, noted for her writings on the issue of abortion. Her essays have sometimes been required readings in academic courses dealing with the abortion debate and they are frequently cited in major publications like Peter Singer's ""The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature"" and Bernard Gert's ""Bioethics: A Systematic Approach"". She was sometimes described as a feminist, largely due to her pro-choice writings. Warren also wrote on the implications of sex selection and about animal treatment. She"
"conceived in any detail outside of pornographic texts, for example the notion that a sexually experienced woman is an asset to a marriage. As such a sensation novel, ""Anna Lombard"" is mentioned in Katherine Mansfield's 1908 short story, ""The Tiredness of Rosabel,"" where a young working-class woman reading a ""cheap, paper-covered edition"" on the bus is completely absorbed in the book. Anna Lombard Anna Lombard is a New Woman novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross. First published in 1901, it is based on the idea that it takes a New Man as well to form a perfect"
"bewildered and appalled reviewers,"" and led the Victorian public and many early reviewers to think that it had been written by a man. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) by Anne Brontë is now considered to be one of the first feminist novels. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was also a successful writer and her ""North and South"" contrasts the lifestyle in the industrial north of England with the wealthier south. Anthony Trollope's (1815–1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early"
"in a respectable establishment. There is disagreement as to whether Mary Ann Radcliffe is the author of several Gothic novels attributed to her. Manfroné was one of the most popular Gothic novels of the early nineteenth century and was remembered warmly by William Makepeace Thackeray. “The Memoirs of Mrs Mary Ann Radcliffe; in Familiar Letters to Her Female Friend” complicates matters by making no reference to Mary Ann as a Gothic novelist. Other novels attributed to Mary Ann Radcliffe are Radzivil and The Fate of Velina de Guidova, both published in 1790 by William Lane at the Minerva Press. Radclife’s"
"the cause of women's suffrage (i.e. the right to vote): ""Lady Florence... threw herself eagerly into the Women's Movement, and spoke on public platforms."" In 1890, Dixie published a utopian novel, ""Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900"", which has been described as a feminist fantasy. It also interweaves elements of romance and detective fiction. In it, women win the right to vote, as the result of the protagonist, Gloriana, posing as a man, Hector D'Estrange, and being elected to the House of Commons. The character of D'Estrange is reflective of Oscar Wilde, but perhaps even more so of Dixie herself."
"Anne (novel) Anne, first published in 1880 by author Constance Fenimore Woolson, is a work of American literary regionalism. It depicts the emotional and spiritual conflicts faced by its eponymous heroine as she leaves her home village, Mackinac Island, to seek a future as a young woman in the Northeastern United States. Her good qualities win her many suitors, but she finds hypocrisy and dysfunctional social relationships among the wealthier strata of U.S. Victorian society. Eventually she selects a suitor who, although of wealthy origins, has lost his means and is ready to accept the stolid virtues of the American"
"about disruption and chaos. They also worked to uphold the political normalcy and traditional morals of the time. Examples of this can be seen in Anne Radcliffe's female characters being submissive and incapable of making their own decisions, upholding traditional values of a patriarchal society. The dissent that occurred during the French Revolution was not only violent, it also led to women questioning their role in society and to a debate on the nature of women. This debate can be seen in one of the most famous gothic novels, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In her novel she engages in a"
"to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement"" by ""The New York Times Book Review"". She ""explores the concept of women's interests in participatory democratic political theory."" She has a background in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology, with a doctorate in political science from Gothenburg University (1991). Her dissertation was titled ""Love Power and Political Interests"". Her main fields of research are social and political theory. Anna G. Jónasdóttir Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic political scientist, gender studies academic and a leading figure internationally in the research"
"of bright, pretty girls in 1941. Thirty-five years later, Anna Hastings, widow of Texas Senator Gordon Hastings, is an influential columnist, powerful television personality, major political figure, publisher of one of the most respected newspapers in the country, and master of a media empire she ruled with a whim of iron. ""Anna Hastings"" is the story of her public and personal struggles as she climbs her way from obscurity to legend, set against the backdrop of Washington during the tumultuous years of World War, Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the emergence of feminism as a distinct political force."
"she wrote poetry, and fourteen novels featuring gothic themes for Minerva Press, using the pseudonym of ""Ann of Swansea"". Ann's mixing precariously with various classes and suffering times of poverty gave her the insight of living through, as well as seeing, the social ills of her times. Her work responded to the popular taste of the time for gothic fiction, social satire and stories of moral progress, with stereotypical women as her characters: nuns are gothic, wives harangue, mothers are fussy and old maids bad-tempered. A portrait of Ann in 1835 (at the age of 71) by William Watkeys is"
"forty years promoting the twin ideas of assertive womanhood and female sexuality as a positive power."" Lois Waisbrooker Lois Waisbrooker (21 February 1826 – 3 October 1909) was an American feminist author, editor, publisher, and campaigner of the later nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. She wrote extensively on issues of sex, marriage, birth control, and women's rights, plus related areas of radical thought like free speech, anarchism, spiritualism and genocide of men. She is perhaps best remembered for her 1893 novel ""A Sex Revolution"" in which she advocated mass genocide of men to reduce them to 10 percent of"
"Anna Swanwick Anna Swanwick (22 June 1813 – 2 November 1899) was an English author and feminist. Anna Swanwick was the youngest daughter of John Swanwick and his wife, Hannah Hilditch. She was born in Liverpool on 22 June 1813. The Swanwicks descended from Philip Henry, the 17th century nonconformist divine. Anna was educated chiefly at home, but, wishing to carry on her education beyond the typical age for girls in this country at that time, she went in 1839 to Berlin, where she studied German and Greek, and gained knowledge of Hebrew. She returned to England in 1843 and"
"NOVELS MR. GRYCE AND AMELIA BUTTERWORTH SERIES OTHER MYSTERIES NON DETECTIVE NOVELS SHORT STORIES & NOVELETTES A Difficult Problem and other stories, featuring: Room Number 3, and Other Detective stories,(1905), featuring: The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange, (1915), featuring: Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called ""the mother of the detective novel"". She was born in Brooklyn, New York"
"characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel ""Vanity Fair"" (1848), subtitled ""A Novel without a Hero"", which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics. ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), Emily's only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by her sister"
"Anna Davin Anna Davin (born 1940) is a British academic and community historian; she is noted for her studies of working-class communities and her contributions to feminist politics and history-writing. She was a research fellow at Middlesex University. Davin was born in 1940, the daughter of Dan and Winne Davin, who both worked for Oxford University Press. In 1958, she got married and subsequently raised children, but she returned to education, studying history at the University of Warwick from 1966 to 1969, and was a founding member of the Women's Liberation Group there (1968). The experience of raising children and"