Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand

Eminently successful in the female magazine and fiction markets of the 1890s, Sarah Grand's work, with its mingling of the sensational and the conventional, enabled the general public to experiment with advanced ideas while providing her New Woman contemporaries with a popular vehicle for the articulation of their demands. In addition to reprinting Grand's hard-to-find journalistic and lesser-known fictional writings, this important new collection also features valuable biographical material and previously unpublished manuscript sources. This rich source for scholarly research includes: Volume One contains Grand's journalism and the contemporary critical reception of her work. Volume Two, focusing mostly on the 1920s-30s, includes letters which shed light on Grand's genesis as a writer and her interaction with 1890s artistic and feminist circles. Volume Three contains a selection of short stories from three collections published at and after the turn of the century.