Mona Caird The Daughters of Danaus

Mona Caird’s immensely successful feminist novel, <i>The Daughters of Danaus </i>(1894), remains a popular choice among scholars and teachers of nineteenth-century British literature. This is the first critical edition and the first twenty-first century reprint of Caird’s novel with a full editorial apparatus including a critical introduction, notes and appendices. Informed by the novel’s <i>fin-de-siècle </i>context, references to Greek mythology and recent scholarship on Caird and the New Woman, this edition will be beneficial for students and scholars of British and Anglophone literature and gender.