description: &lt;div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;The five works have been chosen to illustrate six concepts in the anti-feminist debate, continuing into the twentieth century. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Volume 1 is a work of fiction by Mrs Humphry Ward entitled &lt;i&gt;Daphne&lt;/i&gt; or, &lt;i&gt;Marriage a la Mode&lt;/i&gt;. The anti-divorce plot enables Ward to induct feminism as moral and social anarchy, whose most destructive impetus is directed at the family. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Volume 2 consists of three short works illustrating socialist and progressive anti-feminists. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Volume 3 is made up of two literary pieces in journals and a book by A.R. Wadia that gives the colonial response to feminism. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Volume 4 is a 1913 anti-feminist tract by Ethel Colquoun, &lt;i&gt;The Vocation of Woman&lt;/i&gt;. Volume 5 consists of two works illustrating suffrage and sex extinction by two prominent female writers of the Marie Corelli and Arabella Kenealy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arnold Bennett's &lt;i&gt;Our Chapters on the Sex-Discord&lt;/i&gt; forms Volume 6. In it he supports the idea of women's economic independence only to reaffirm the centrality of female domesticity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&gt;
language: English
title: Anti-Feminism in Edwardian Literature
titlecomplete: Anti-Feminism in Edwardian Literature
publisher: Thoemmes