O'Toole, Tina, Keynotes from Millstreet, Co. Cork: George
Egerton's Transgressive Fictions, Colby Quarterly, Vol. 36, Iss. 2 [2000]
Traveller; "New Woman" -writer. Proponent of "Nietzschean" feminism, positioned her works within the decadent movement. Her very frank way of writing about women's sexuality made her well-known in liberal and avant-garde intellectual circles in Northern Europe in the 1890s. As a writer she was marginalized after the Oscar Wilde-trial. Translator from Scandinavian languages.
Considered herself to be Irish (although mother was English and father was Irish).
Eloped to Norway in 1887 with married man.
David Brown, GEORGE EGERTON'S KEYNOTES: NIETZSCHEAN FEMINISM AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE FETISHISM, in Victorian Literature and Culture (2011), 39: pp 143-166.
Married to Henry Higginson (1888), divorced 1889. Later married to George Egerton Clairmonte (1891), used his name as a pseudonym. Divorced from him after a few years, then married Golding Bright (1901).
Son, George Clairmonte (b. 1895), killed in World War I.
- Romance with Knut Hamsun
- Second marriage to Egerton Clairmont
- Friend of George Bernard Shaw
- Friend of J.M. Barrie
- Feminist
NB: check which countries to add as places of residence. jdgjan15:
Ireland; South-America (to be specified); United States; Norway; Germany; England; Australia
KLK 1904
MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.188ss: New Woman