New Woman
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attributed to Sarah Grand.[1]
Noun
[edit]- (historical) An educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.
- 1896–1897, Wilhelmina Wimble, “Incomes for Ladies”, in The Lady's Realm, volume 1, page 104:
- These ladies, actuated by the modern spirit of independence, have yet nothing in common with the “New Woman”—if, which we doubt, this feminine Frankenstein be indeed among us, waiting to fall upon us to our undoing.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sarah Grand (1894 March) “The New Aspect of the Woman Question”, in North American Review, volume 158, page 271:
- Both the cow-woman and the scum-woman are well within range of comprehension of the Bawling Brotherhood, but the new woman is a little above him, and he never even thought of looking up to where she has been sitting apart in silent contemplation all these years, thinking and thinking, until at last she solved the problem and proclaimed for herself what was wrong with Home-is-the-Woman's-Sphere, and prescribed the remedy.
