The Rise of the Modern Suitress in the Countryside in Sarah Grand’s “Eugenia: A Modern Maiden and a Man Amazed”
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This article discusses Sarah Grand’s “Eugenia” (1894), a short story where a rural heiress heroine ousts a degenerate urban suitor from her community and marries a healthy farmer, who would not pose a risk to her health and would help her become a strong mother to a better race. Most of all, the plot of “Eugenia” is thus a new courtship one where the heroine turns herself into a suitress. That is, instead of waiting for the suitors’ marriage proposals, she herself indeed performs courtship activities, taking the lead in the entire process whereby heterosexual romance develops into a marriage that is safe and stable for her offspring as well as herself. This article ultimately argues that Grand conflates eugenics and the New Womanhood through her rural and thus modern heroine’s female-centered romance.
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This article discusses Sarah Grand’s “Eugenia” (1894), a short story where a rural heiress heroine ousts a degenerate urban suitor from her community and marries a healthy farmer, who would not pose a risk to her health and would help her become a strong mother to a better race. Most of all, the plot of “Eugenia” is thus a new courtship one where the heroine turns herself into a suitress. That is, instead of waiting for the suitors’ marriage proposals, she herself indeed performs courtship activities, taking the lead in the entire process whereby heterosexual romance develops into a marriage that is safe and stable for her offspring as well as herself. This article ultimately argues that Grand conflates eugenics and the New Womanhood through her rural and thus modern heroine’s female-centered romance.
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