The term new woman was coined by Sarah Graud in 1894, rapidly adopted and popularised by new woman writers and activists, and their media opponents. It signalled new or newly perceived forms of femininity which were seen to be representative of the Victorian fin de siecle.This literary anthology includes material which expresses as broad and balanced a picture of the new woman as possible. The writers include Sarah Graud, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Katherin Mansfield, Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Olive Schreiner. The stories in the anthology examine society through the eyes of the new woman, as she encountered new choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love.