Sarah Grand, George Egerton and the Eugenic Social Debate: Marriage, Civic Motherhood, and the New Woman Writer.
This article considers the ways Sarah Grand and George Egerton engaged eugenic discourse in their writing, rhetorically molding the ideology to promote their individual perspectives on women's sexuality, marriage, and the birthing of children. The argument contextualizes the growing eugenics movemen...
| Publicado en: | English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 371 - 391 |
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