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Richardson, Angélique; Willis, Chris

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“…Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis use the census returns of 1851when 400,000 unmarried women were registeredto underpin their suggestion that these 'surplus' women 'posed a considerable if inadvertent threat to separate-sphere ideology: uncontained by spouses they risked spilling out into the public sector, becoming public and visible'. 43 In Gilbert's libretto, the men ensure that the only women to leave the walls of Castle Adamant are married women, thereby eliminating the threat of Ida's principles becoming public.…”

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Educating Ida: Gilbert and Sullivan Among the New Women

Lybeck

2023

Literature & History

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Gilbert and Sullivan's eighth Savoy opera Princess Ida (1884) is best understood against the backdrop of women's higher education and emancipation in nineteenth-century Britain. Careful work has been done in tracing correspondences between the opera and its source texts, but Ida is not only a descendant of literary figures. She is the peer of the pioneering women of Girton College, Cambridge whose biographies attest to the challenges faced by women in pursuit of an education at the end of the nineteenth century. This association allows Ida and her students to be positioned as precursors of that fin-de-siècle phenomenon, the New Woman. Often dismissed as an uncomfortable relic of Victorian male chauvinism, the political and ideological complexity behind Princess Ida is recognised here as the opera is identified as one moment in continuous literary, cultural and social history.

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Section: So You've No Chance! (140)mentioning

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Educating Ida: Gilbert and Sullivan Among the New Women

Lybeck

2023

Literature & History

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“…These characters invariably refused to conform to the traditional feminine role of a subservient wife or a self-sacrificing mother. The “shocking” behaviour of these New Woman characters made them both appealing and appalling to readers of the period, which explained why, by the turn of the century, they featured in over a hundred novels (Richardson and Willis 2002: 1).…”

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“…Therefore, she was often the subject of condemnation. Critics satirically represented her as “a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon” (Richardson and Willis 2002: 12) who insisted on wearing short hair and practical dress. They construed her call for gender equality as an attempt to become men.…”

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The Perils of Reading Fiction: the Female Quixote and the Thai New Woman

Chaochuti

2021

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British literary history routinely associated women with reading fiction, especially the novel. This association seemingly threatened male hegemony and cultural authority. It led, therefore, to the portrayal of the woman reader as a female quixote who was prone to misreading and being misled by what she read. This representation became popular during the rise of the novel in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the New Woman's emergence at the fin-de-siècle. Similar developments took place in Siam/Thailand where the birth of fiction, the advent of the woman reader, and the New Woman's rise roughly coincided in the late 1910s and early 1920s. By examining San Thewarak's novel Bandai haeng khwam rak [Stairways to Love] (1932), this paper demonstrates the trope of the female quixote's invocation to describe the emerging Thai (New) Woman reader and the threat that she embodied that had to be managed and controlled.

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Introduction

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Educating Ida: Gilbert and Sullivan Among the New Women

Educating Ida: Gilbert and Sullivan Among the New Women

The Perils of Reading Fiction: the Female Quixote and the Thai New Woman

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