BOOK REVIEW: Teresa Mangum. MARRIED, MIDDLEBROW, AND MILITANT: SARAH GRAND AND THE NEW WOMAN NOVEL . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
1999; Indiana University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2979/vic.1999.42.4.684
ISSN1527-2052
Autores Tópico(s)Islamic Studies and History
ResumoWhen a worker in the railway lost-property office received a telegram asking if anyone had turned in The Heavenly Twins, he responded "no trace of twins, wire description" (qtd. 125). But it was not so unrealistic for an owner of Sarah Grand's sensational novel of 1893 to have assumed the title would have been instantly recognizable. The Heavenly Twins was the best-seller of the year, selling 20,000 copies in Britain in its first year, and five times as many in the United States. As Grand later remarked, she had achieved her purpose of exposing the sexual double standard, and the tabooed diseases it brought with it: "dinner tables resounded with the controversy." In the words of the sex reformer W. T. Stead, the novel was "a bomb of dynamite, which she exploded with wonderful results" (Review of Reviews 10 [1894] 68).
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