Download or read book The "improper" Feminine written by Lyn Pykett and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the `proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.