ABSTRACT
The first and perhaps most important new aspect of this volume is that it is international not only in the provenance of its contributors but, crucially, in the topics they address. The New Woman has been understood almost exclusively within national boundaries or sometimes, as Angelique Richardson points out, as a ‘transatlantic phenomenon’ (p. 243).2 Chapters in this collection situate the New Woman in a much wider geographical and cultural context, dealing as they do with Hungary, Japan, British Columbia, Germany, Ireland and Wales, as well as England and the United States of America. This international dimension not only brings
new knowledge into work written in English, it also enables us to revisit our understanding of existing work by seeing it in a comparative light.
