Lena Wånggren is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she also teaches. Her research includes work on gender in nineteenth-century literature and culture, feminist theory, Scottish writing, and the medical humanities. She has published on feminist pedagogy, nineteenth-century writing, and literature and embodiment.

This is an astute study of the ways in which late-Victorian literature imagines the figure of the emancipated New Woman as the user of a whole series of late-Victorian inventions, from the bicycle to the typewriter, to technologies of the clinic.　 A valuable addition to work on literature and technology.

• Introduction; 1. The New Woman in Technological Modernity; 2. Typewriters and Typists: Secretarial Agency at the Fin de Siècle; 3. The ‘Freedom Machine’: The New Woman and the Bicycle; 4. Medical New Women I: Nurses; 5. Medical New Women II: Doctors; 6. Technologies of Detection; Conclusion.

Lena Wånggren is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she also teaches. Her research includes work on gender in nineteenth-century literature and culture, feminist theory, Scottish writing, and the medical humanities. She has published on feminist pedagogy, nineteenth-century writing, and literature and embodiment.

This is an astute study of the ways in which late-Victorian literature imagines the figure of the emancipated New Woman as the user of a whole series of late-Victorian inventions, from the bicycle to the typewriter, to technologies of the clinic.　 A valuable addition to work on literature and technology.

• Introduction; 1. The New Woman in Technological Modernity; 2. Typewriters and Typists: Secretarial Agency at the Fin de Siècle; 3. The ‘Freedom Machine’: The New Woman and the Bicycle; 4. Medical New Women I: Nurses; 5. Medical New Women II: Doctors; 6. Technologies of Detection; Conclusion.