The New Woman: As Seen in 1889-1897
This digital timeline aims to examine public opinion on the New Woman as seen throughout political cartoons, essays, and reviews published from the years 1889 to 1897. During this timeframe of Victorian history, the New Woman was beginning to fully emerge and become a more common figure. At the same time, she was beginning to be both judged and defended by the public as they attempt to understand her.
Place de la Concorde
The French Revolution saw the overthrow and execution of the previously reigning French Monarch. Both King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette would be brutally executed by guillotine in 1793. For the next twenty years, Europe would enter a series of large-scale military conflicts. These wars, often called the Coalition Wars, involved, at some point or another, almost all European nations and had a worldwide impact. They only ended when Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.