RARE "Irish Feminist Writer" Sarah Grand Cliupped Signature For Sale

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RARE "Irish Feminist Writer" Sarah Grand Cliupped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Irish Feminist Writer" Sarah Grand Cliupped Signature. 

12 May 1943) was an Irish feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work

revolved around the New Woman ideal. Sarah Grand was

born Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke in Down, Ireland, of English parents. Her father was

Edward John Bellenden Clarke (1813–1862) and her mother was Margaret Bell

Sherwood (1813–1874). When her father died, her mother took her and her

siblings back to Bridlington, England to be near her family

who lived at Rysome Garth near Holmpton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Grand's

education was very sporadic, yet she managed with perseverance to make a career

for herself as an activist and writer, drawing on her travels and life

experiences. In 1868 Grand was sent to the Royal Naval School, Twickenham, but was soon expelled for organizing groups that

supported Josephine Butler's

protests against the Contagious Diseases Act,

which persecuted prostitutes as infected women, as the sole cause of the spread

of sexually transmitted diseases, subjecting them to indignities such as

inspection of their genitals and enclosure in locked hospital wards. Grand was

then sent to a finishing school in Kensington, London. In August 1870, at the age of sixteen, she

married widowed Army surgeon David Chambers McFall, who was 23 years her senior

and had two sons from his previous marriage: Chambers Haldane Cooke McFall and

Albert William Crawford McFall. Grand and McFall's only child, David Archibald

Edward McFall, was born in Sandgate, Kent, on 7 October 1871. He became an actor and took

the name Archie Carlaw Grand. From 1873 to 1878 the family travelled in the Far

East, providing Grand with more material for her fiction. In 1879 they moved

to Norwich, and in 1881 to Warrington, Lancashire where her husband retired. Upon

returning to England, she and her husband became sexually estranged by her

husband's bizarre sexual appetites. Grand felt constrained by her marriage. She

turned to writing, but her first novel, Ideala, self-published in

1888, enjoyed limited success and some negative reviews.George Gissing who read the novel in April 1889 wrote in

his diary that he found it 'on the whole an interesting book but crude in parts

and without much style'. Nevertheless, she trusted in her new career to

support her in her decision to leave her husband in 1890 and move to London.

Recently enacted laws that allowed women to retain their personal property

after marriage were an encouraging factor in her decision. She

used her experience of suffocation in marriage and the joy of consequent

liberation in her fictional depictions of pre-suffrage women with few political

rights and options, trapped in oppressive marriages. Later works would have a

more sympathetic stance to males, such as Babs the Impossible in

which the single noble women would feel resurgence in their worth encouraged by

an idealistic self-made man. Through her

husband's work as an army surgeon, Grand learned of the anatomical physiology

of the nature of sexually transmitted

diseases. She used this knowledge in her 1893 novel The

Heavenly Twins, warning of the dangers of syphilis, advocating sensitivity rather than condemnation for

the young women infected with this disease. Clarke renamed herself Sarah Grand

in 1893 with the publication by Heinemann of her novel The Heavenly

Twins. This feminine pen name represented the archetype of the "New Woman" developed by her and her female colleagues.

Grand established the phrase "New Woman" in a debate with Ouida in

1894. She lived briefly in London, then, after her husband's sudden

death in February 1898, moved to Tunbridge Wells, Kent, during which time she took an

active part in the local women's suffrage societies, as well as travelling

extensively, particularly to the United States on a lecture tour in the wake of

the notoriety of her novel The Heavenly Twins. Although it gained

her mixed and often angry criticism, her work was well received by notable

authors as George Bernard Shaw. In

1920 she moved to Crowe Hall at Widcombe in Bath, Somerset where she served from 1922 to 1929

as Mayoress alongside Mayor Cedric Chivers. When her

home was bombed in 1942, Grand was persuaded to move to Calne in

Wiltshire, where she died the following year on 12 May 1943, a month before her

89th birthday. She is buried in Lansdown Cemetery, Bath, Somerset, alongside her sister,

Nellie. Her son Archie outlived her by only a year, dying in a London air raid

in 1944. 

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