Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Grant Allen: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Woman Who Did
Appendix A: Grant Allen on Women, Sex, and Marriage
- From “Woman’s Place in Nature” (1889)
- From “Plain Words on the Woman Question” (1889)
- From “The Girl of the Future” (1890)
- From “The New Hedonism” (1894)
- From “About the New Hedonism” (1894)
- From “Introduction” to The British Barbarians (1895)
Appendix B: Sources of Allen’s Views on the “Sex Problem”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Notes to Queen Mab (1813)
- John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1878)
- Herbert Spencer, from The Principles of Sociology (1885)
- August Bebel, from Woman in the Past, Present, and Future (1885)
- Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, from “The Woman Question” (1886)
- Karl Pearson, from “Socialism and Sex” (1888)
- Olive Schreiner, from “Three Dreams in a Desert” (1894)
Appendix C: The Marriage Debate 1888-1895
- Mona Caird, from “Marriage” (1888)
- Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, from “Marriage Rejection and Marriage Reform” (1888)
- Harry Quilter, ed., from Is Marriage a Failure? (1888)
- Mona Caird, from “Ideal Marriage” (1888)
- Clementina Black, from “On Marriage: A Criticism” (1890)
- Edward Carpenter, from Marriage in Free Society (1894)
- Beswicke Ancrum, from “The Sexual Problem” (1894)
- E.M.S., from “Some Modern Ideas about Marriage” (1895)
Appendix D: The Reception of The Woman Who Did
- H[arold] F[rederic], from the New York Times (3 and 17 February 1895)
- [W.T. Stead], from Review of Reviews (February 1895)
- a. Percy Addleshaw, from Academy (2 March 1895) b. Grant Allen, from letter to Academy (9 March 1895)
- a. [H.G. Wells], from Saturday Review (9 March 1895) b. Grant Allen, from letter to Saturday Review (16 March 1895)
- From Spectator (30 March 1895)
- From Humanitarian (March 1895)
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from Contemporary Review (May 1895)
- Sarah A. Tooley, from Humanitarian (March 1896)
- Richard Le Gallienne, from Retrospective Reviews (1896)
Appendix E: Two Parodies
- W.L. Alden, from Idler (February–July 1895)
- From Punch (30 March 1895)
Works Cited and Recommended Reading