Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus

• Includes a critical introduction that reframes the novel as a narrative of female professionalization
• Includes diverse explanatory notes that address references from mythology to historical facts and offers translations as needed, keeping a broad and international student-scholar audience in mind
• Includes appendix consisting of brief excepts from social essays directly relevant to the novel’s thematic focus

Mona Caird’s immensely successful feminist novel, The Daughters of Danaus (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 fin-de-siècle 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.