
Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2) - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Ella Hepworth Dixon,
1 / 24An End and a Beginning
- 1. An End and a Beginning
- 2. A Child
- 3. Wonderings
- 4. A Young Girl
- 5. Alison
- 6. Mary's Lover
- 7. The Central London School of Art
- 8. A Kettledrum at Lady Jane's
- 9. Mary Tries to Live Her Life
- 10. New Hopes
- 11. In Grub Street
- 12. The Woman Waits
- 13. The Man Returns
- 14. The Apotheosis of Perry Jackson
- 15. Mary Goes Out on a Wet Day
- 16. A Comedy in Real Life
- 17. Two Ultimatums
- 18. Number Twenty-seven
- 19. Dunlop Strange Makes a Mistake
- 20. Alison Arranges a Match
- 21. The Gate of Silence
- 22. The World Wags On
- 23. In Which Civilization Triumphs
- 24. The Woman in the Glass
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âThe Story of a Modern Womanâ (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels to grow out of and shape the âNew Womanâ movement of the 1890s. It won such attention for its author that Ella Hepworth Dixon was given the nickname âThe New Woman.â The story of the novelâs protagonist, Mary Erle, loosely follows the outline of Dixonâs own situation. As the well-educated daughter of a public intellectual, she enters the world of professional writing after his death, partly trading on his name. Victorian society had been distinctly patriarchal, and women were expected to find their places under the protection of men, traditionally defining themselves as wives and mothers. However, by the 1890s, an alarming âsurplusâ of unmarried women in Britain meant that many had statistically little chance of becoming anyoneâs wife or mother, and must create for themselves other paths to meaningful existence. This new reality demanded a more complex understanding of life, with storylines more nuanced than the old âfind-a-husbandâ fiction of earlier decades. âThe Story of a Modern Womanâ was published first in serial form, then released in the UK and the USA in two editions with some differences in the selection and arrangement of material. This LibriVox recording is based on the American edition. - Summary by Bruce Pirie
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