Mona Caird, the Daughters of Danaus

By Mona Caird

Book Overview

Mona Caird's immensely successful feminist novel, The Daughters of Danaus (1894), remains a popular choice among scholars and teachers of nineteenth-century British literature. This is the first critical edition and the first twenty-first century reprint of Caird's novel with a full editorial apparatus including a critical introduction, notes and appendices. Informed by the novel's fin-de-si cle context, references to Greek mythology and recent scholarship on Caird and the New Woman, this edition will be beneficial for students and scholars of British and Anglophone literature and gender.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399529374
• ISBN13: 9781399529372
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the greats of New Woman fiction

In Daughters of Danaus, Mona Caird manages to create a "problem" novel that does not ignore realism, plot, and good characterization. True, the novel is very talky, and a massive proportion of its bulk is a series of arguments between various characters on a woman's place, nature vs. society, and the power of the human will. All the same, the novel is never lacking in interest, and is thoroughly modern in refusing to provide a neat resolution.