Free Land Free Love

First published in 2004. This five volume set collects together a series of writings on the role of women in the late-Victorian Era. This final volume of the set, brings together the voices of female New Woman writers and late Victorian literary criticism. The contemporary debate on New Woman fiction formed part of a wider discourse on decadence, degeneration and the crises of gender and sexuality in culture, literature and political life.

In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-siècle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes which carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.

A compelling political biography of Galusha A. Grow, an often-overlooked, yet influential radical American politician of the nineteenth century, who became Speaker of the House in 1861.