A collection of both familiar and unfamiliar primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth century ideas. An expert team gather together, introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key texts from the Victorian[...]

A cultural icon of the "fin de siecle", the "New Woman" was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette smoking Amazon, the "New Woman" romped through the pages of "Punch" and popular fiction as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of "New Wom[...]