Skip to Main Content
Digital Public Library of America
  • Home
  • Browse by Topic
  • Browse by Partner
  • Exhibitions
  • Primary Source Sets
  • My Lists
  • About DPLA
  • News
  • DPLA Pro
  • Home
  • Browse by Topic
  • Browse by Partner
  • Exhibitions
  • Primary Source Sets
  • My Lists
  • About DPLA
  • News
  • DPLA Pro
Primary Source Sets
The New Woman
An image of the New Woman from 1899—she reads the newspaper in her riding bloomers with her bicycle nearby as her husband does the wash.

An image of the New Woman from 1899—she reads the newspaper in her riding bloomers with her bicycle nearby as her husband does the wash.

Citation Information
"The ‘new woman,’” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/630947bfae32c4072e9548167c56d41b.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Boston Public Library via Digital Commonwealth.

Tips for Students

For this source, consider:

  • the author's point of view
  • the author's purpose
  • historical context
  • audience

Item 4 of 15 in the Primary Source Set The New Woman

Previous ItemNext Item
A definition of the “The New Woman” from Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman, a 1993 biography by Ruth Bordin.
A cover of Harper’s Weekly, ca.1890-1920, by Maxfield Parrish, that shows a woman riding a bicycle.
An excerpt from The New Womanhood (1904) by Winnifred Harper Cooley.
An image of the New Woman from 1899—she reads the newspaper in her riding bloomers with her bicycle nearby as her husband does the wash.
A woman represents independence on this 1894 Fourth of July postcard illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
An excerpt from The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
An excerpt from The Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen.
A photograph of Nellie Bly, newspaper correspondent; she circled the Earth in a record-setting seventy-two days from 1889 to 1890.
An excerpt from What Women Can Earn, a book describing the careers and salaries available to women in 1899.
A World War I poster proclaiming, “For every fighter a woman worker. Care for her through the YWCA.”
The cover to the book College Girls (1895), written by Abbe Carter Goodloe, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
A photograph of a woman driving a sportscar in 1907.
A poster for The New Woman, a comedic play from 1894 which shows one way that society was dealing with changing gender roles.
A valentine card showing an anti-suffrage sentiment: “Your vote from me you will not get, I don’t want a preaching suffragette.”
An illustration from the 1895 novel A Study in Bloomers: “And by way of illustration, she picked up the pole and vaulted.”

These sets were created and reviewed by teachers. Explore resources and ideas for Using DPLA's Primary Source Sets in your classroom.

To give feedback, contact us at info@dp.la. You can also view resources for National History Day.

DPLA

  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • How Can I Use DPLA?
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Harmful Content
  • About DPLA
  • Contact Us
  • Feedback
  • News

Tools

  • Primary Source Sets
  • Browse by Partner
  • Browse by Topic
  • Exhibitions
  • My Lists
  • Search

DPLA Pro

  • DPLA Pro Home
  • Prospective Hubs
  • Hub Network
  • Developers
  • Education
  • Projects
  • Ebooks
  • Events
Donate
DPLA Home
FacebookInstagramTwitter