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A Superfluous Woman

by Emma Francis Brooke

“A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at the end of the 19th century. At the opening of the story, we find Jessamine Halliday, a pampered young aristocrat, languishing and apparently close to death. Her desperate family has called in a maverick doctor, who recognizes that she suffers from the idleness and listlessness too often experienced by upper-class English women. The only “medicine” she needs is a change of thinking and new self-awareness. Accordingly, the doctor coaches her to think more critically about her role as a woman and about the uses of meaningful labor.

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English

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1894

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Emma Brooke or Emma Frances Brooke was a British novelist and a campaigner for the rights of women and workers. Brooke was born in Cheshire on 22 December 1844. Her father was a cotton mill owner and...

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