The 'Improper' Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing by Lyn Pykett

The 'Improper' Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing

Lyn Pykett

248 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective fast-paced
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The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, 'fast' heroines, fir...

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