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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Sarah Grand (1854-1943)

‘To be true to life should be the first aim of an author’

Born:
Frances Bellenden Clarke in Ireland, 1854.
Married: Chambers McFall, a widowed army surgeon, 1871. They had one son.
Travels: She travelled to the Far East & lived in England.
Career: a writer and an public speaker, she coined the phrase 'New Woman' in a political article entitled: ''The New Aspect of the Woman Question."
Unlike male writers of the time, Grand aimed to merge ART and REALITY. This is most evidently seen in her semi-autobiographical work The Beth Book (1897).

Works Timeline:


Ideala (1888)
The Heavenly Twins (1893) The same year she changed her name to Sarah Grand- a pseudonym that did not disguise her gender.
Our Manifold Nature (1894)
The Beth Book (1897)
The Modern Man and Maid (1898)
Emotional Moments (1903)
Adnams Orchard (1912)
The Winged Victory (1916)
Variety (1922).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

People should read this.