ABSTRACT
The introduction opens with the description of the painter Annie Swynnerton’s body of work to illustrate the New Woman as an in-between identity, looking at the past and fighting for the future. Then, this chapter delimits the discussion of liminality to those dimensions that are relevant for subsequent analysis. It expands on this concept to engage with other relevant notions, such as the idea of trace or temporal and spatial orientation, to further offer a theoretical background for a polytemporal concept of feminist history that solidly links these past and present narratives together.
