The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society's emerging New Woman.This Broadview edition includes appendices that link the novel to histories of empire and colonialism, the emergence of the New Woman, and the conflicts between science and religion in ...

The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society's emerging New Woman.This Broadview edition includes appendices that link the novel to histories of empire and colonialism, the emergence of the New Woman, and the conflicts between science and religion in the Victorian period. Contemporary reviews are also included.