Irish New Woman

Tina O'Toole is Lecturer in English in the School of Language, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

'O'Toole has admirably accomplished her stated goal of 'complicat[ing] and enrich[ing] conventional narratives of literary history as well as the discourses of gender, sexual and national identities." Maureen O'Connor, Irish Literary Supplement

• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Irish New Woman 1. Feminism and Famine 2. Empire Girls 3. The New Woman and the Land War 4. The 'New' Mother Ireland 5. The New Woman and the Boy 6. The Transnational New Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index