X-ray of bound feet, China
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Sarah Grand, author of "The Heavenly Twins"

...born in Ireland in 1854...a leading figure in late nineteenth-century feminism of social and moral purity. Her fiction explores the possibilities of female emancipation in the public sphere of education and career. At the same time she endorsed marriage and motherhood of the highest standard exacted by the sexually selective woman of the future. Her belief in female evolutionary superiority was often expressed in a moral eugenics toward the regeneration of the race and nation.
Having failed to find a publisher for her first novel Ideala (1888) she printed it herself, seven years after its completion.
["The Heavenly Twins"]...a controversial bestseller in England and the United States...This triple decker novel in deploring sexual ignorance and hypocrisy in marriage gave a disturbing depiction of a syphilitic wife and baby. The eponymous twins, Angelica and Diablo, served to question gender roles; 'The Tenor and the Boy' is a cross-dressing episode in which Angelica tells the tenor that as “the Boy” she has enjoyed, “free intercourse with your masculine mind undiluted by your masculine prejudices and proclivities with regard to my sex”...In the late 1890's, at the end of the New Woman novel's heyday, Grand was lecturing and campaigning widely in England and America on women's suffrage...After moving to Bath in 1920, she served as mayoress during 1922-29.

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Floride Green
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Coxey at the Capitol. The Commonweal Army leaving Brightwood Camp May 10 1894

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