Sarah Grand: 6 books

Sarah Grand (10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an Irish United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work revolved around the New Woman ideal. In The Heavenly Twins Grand demonstrates the dangers of the moral double standard which overlooked men's...

In this 1893 novel, an overlooked classic of early feminism, Grand follows three young women—one of whom, Angelica Hamilton-Wells, is half of the heavenly set of twins in the title—through marriage and young adulthood, where each learns, in different ways, to fight against the prevailing patriarchal society.   

At nineteen Evadne looked out of narrow eyes at an untried world inquiringly. She wanted to know. She found herself forced to put prejudice aside in order to see beneath it, deep down into the sacred heart of things, where the truth is, and the bewildering clash of human precept with human practice...

She came among us without flourish of trumpets. She just slipped into her place, almost unnoticed, but once she was settled there it seemed as if we had got something we had wanted all our lives, and we should have missed her as you would miss the thrushes in the spring, or any other sweet familiar...

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might...