Grant Allen
Grant Allen, Author of "Plain Words on the Woman Question"
Page 1 of "Plain Words on the Woman Question" as published in The Fortnightly Review. The full text as originally published can be found here staring at page 456 of 898.
Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a prolific Canadian author and essayist of the fin de siécle. His essay "Plain Words on the Woman Question" cemented Allen as one of the loudest, and most controversial, voices in the New Women debate. Allen believed that the ideology of The New Woman promoted an unmarried, independent lifestyle that he viewed as tratorious to the British Empire. Women, to Allen, had the responsibility of bearing children, and New Women were eschewing this responsibility. Allen asserted that the "majority of women in any community must needs become wives and brothers" to distribute the "burden" of childbirth equally to maintain England's population. Like Linton, Allen viewed New Women as antithetical to the imperialist endeavors of the British Empire.
Mona Caird
Mona Caird, Author of "A Defense of the So-Called 'Wild Women'"
Page 1 of "A Defense of the So-Called 'Wild Women'" as published in Nineteenth Century. The full text as originally published can be found here starting on page 818 of 1048.
Mona Caird (1854-1931) ws a renowned New Women novelist and contributor to the Women Question debate. Caird published the essay "A Defense of the So-Called 'Wild Women'" (May 1892) in response to Linton's three "Wild Women" essays. Caird criticized Linton's essays of having "nothing to answer" for pertaining to why the Wild Women are inherently immoral. Instead, Caird denounced Lynn's bifurcation of women into two classes - the "beautiful, submissing, and nobel" and the "bad, ugly, and ungenerous," respectively - arguing that the "wild woman" is nothing more that a fairy tale caricature constructed by the "women of the old order" who are martyrs to their socially-prescribed "duties" of their sex.
Sarah Grand
Sarah Grand, author of "The New Aspect of the Woman Question"
Sarah Grand (1854-1943) was a novelist, feminist, and activist who coined the term "New Woman." During her career, Grand was an intellectual opponent to Linton, often responding directly to Linton's criticisms of the New Women. In her essay "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" (March 1894), Grand reappropriated Linton's insult "shrieking sisterhood" directed at New Women by creating the term "bawling brotherhood" to describe the hegemonic dominance of men that "tried to howl down every attempt on the part of [women] to make the world a pleasanter place to live." In their respective essays that indirectly opposed one another, Linton defended traditional womanhood while Grand championed the New Woman.