Table of Contents

I. DESPERATELY SEEKING SISTERHOOD: 1. Fatal Attractions? Reflecting on the Affinities between Fin-de-Siecle Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Gillian Kersley; 2.Alternative Wifestyles - Vera Brittain's Feminist Journalism of the 1920s and the Influence of Olive Schreiner, Andrea Peterson; 3. A Transatlantic Alliance - Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Vernon Lee, Patricia Pulham; 4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Forerunner, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams. II.FROM NEW WOMAN TO BLACK WOMANISM: 5. Multiculturalism and the New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century America, Carmen Birkle; 6. Pauline Hopkins's Portrayal of the African-American New Woman in Contending Forces and the Colored American Magazine, Sabina Matter-Seibel; 7. 'A New Race of Colored Women' - Pauline Hopkins at the Colored American Magazine, Jill Bergman; 8. 'Our Women and What They Think' - Amy Jacques Garvey, New Negro Womanhood, and the Woman's Page of the Negro World, Barbara Bair. III. IN A DIFFERENT VOICE: 9. Elizabeth Robins, the 'New Woman' Novelist, and the Writing of Literary Histories of the 1890s, Sue Thomas; 10. 'Der Mensch als Weib' - Lou Andreas-Salome's Literary Response to the Woman Question in Turn-of-the-Century Germany, Christa Zorn; 11. 'Female Consciousness' - Aesthetic Concepts and Feminist Thought in Dorothy Richardson's Writing, Eveline Kilian. IV. THE VOYAGE OUT: 12. 'Nature's Double Vitality Experiment' - May Sinclair's Interpretation of the New Woman, Laurel Forster; 13. 'She in her "Armour" and He in his Coat of Nerves' - May Sinclair and the Rewriting of Chivalry, Leigh Wilson, Jane S. Gabin.

About the Author

Ann Heilmann is a lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is the author of New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism.