New Women in Britain and North America: This was a concept brought forward by a writer named Sarah, who wrote a book that triggered a dispute between two kinds of commentators. The book mainly talks about women's position in the middle class, including a few aspects, such as finance, employment, marriage, etc. The writer advocated protecting women's position. Although the idea did not go well, it was still commemorated as a women's movement.

The heyday of New Woman fiction, however, took place in the mid-1890s. Sarah Grand, following on from her article ‘The New Aspect of the Woman Question’ highlighted the double-standards inherent in Victorian Society by launching an attack on the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s in her book The Heavenly Twins. In the book Evadne Frayling, the central character, refuses to consummate her marriage when she discovers, on her wedding day, her husband’s dubious sexual past. The Contagious Diseases Acts had allowed for the forcible detainment of prostitutes in ‘Lock Hospitals’ while the men who frequented prostitutes, in a ghastly example of double-standards, remained at liberty to spread any disease they happened to be carrying. Grand’s 1897 novel The Beth Book addresses similar themes while also exploring the disastrous consequences for a young woman who is encouraged to make an advantageous marriage at the first opportunity rather than pursue an education and intellectual freedom.