‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…While the New Woman was often mocked and caricatured as a mannish and destructive figure in the late Victorian press, New Woman writers also used humour to attack the status quo and parry ridicule with ridicule. …”
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