Modern Woman: Her Intentions

"Modern Woman: Her Intentions" by Florence Farr is a thought-provoking treatise written in the early 20th century. This book acts as a critical examination of women's roles, rights, and aspirations during a time when social and political changes were rapidly unfolding. It addresses the need for women's suffrage and economic independence while critiquing the existing societal structures that continue to oppress women. The book delves into various themes, including the suffrage movement, women's income, the complexities of love, marriage, and divorce, and the economic dependence of women on men. Farr emphasizes the importance of women awakening from their suppressed states to claim their rightful positions in society. Through her discussions, she articulates the psychological and emotional dimensions of female experiences, advocating for independence and reform in social practices surrounding love and marriage. The work serves both as an urgent call to action for women's rights and a broader reflection on the implications of this awakening for societal evolution. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Florence Beatrice Emery was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She was a friend and collaborator of Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, poet Ezra Pound, playwright Oscar Wilde, artists Aubrey Beardsley and Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's fin de siècle era, and even by their standards she was "the bohemian's bohemian". Though not as well known as some of her contemporaries and successors, Farr was a "first-wave" feminist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; she publicly advocated for suffrage, workplace equality, and equal protection under the law for women, writing a book and many articles in intellectual journals on the rights of "the new woman".