Brandon: the New Women & the Old Men: Love Sex & the Woman Question (Cloth)

Brandon, R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393028496 ISBN 13: 9780393028492

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1990

An engrossing group biography of an extraordinary circle of men and women. Through the personal relationships of Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl) and Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Ruth Brandon shows us that women were forced to compromise in a way men never did for the sexual and social freedom they so assiduously avowed. Photographs.

From the Publisher:

żA book of lasting importanceż INDEPENDENT
Examining the lives, and more importantly, the marriages and sexual relationships of this fascinating set of late-Victorian intellectuals and social reformers, THE NEW WOMEN AND THE OLD MEN brilliantly combines social history, biography and feminist analysis.

Praise for THE NEW WOMEN AND THE OLD MEN

‘A fusion of biography, social history, and analysis more absorbing than fiction . . . It is an unceasingly entertaining and stimulating exercise for the mind’ THE TIMES

‘Ruth Brandon writes with a crisp, incisive wit . . . [and] creates a powerful wish to explore her territory further’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Fascinating’ SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY