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Punch magazine was instrumental in shaping the figure of the New Woman in the popular imagination. Critical studies of the representation of the New Woman in Punch tend to focus on its misogynistic depictions of a ‘nagging New Woman [who] can never be quiet’ (26 May 1894, 252), but alongside these satires on the New Woman were pieces by female authors, some of whom could be described as New Women themselves. This article will focus on two pieces, published in Punch just over a decade apart, by women who were committed to the cause of women’s rights: Rosaline Masson’s poem ‘The Reason Why’ (1898) and Evelyn Sharp’s short story ‘The Wreck of “The Ark”’ (1909). The authors of both of these pieces poke fun at the stereotypes surrounding the New Woman without overtly criticising Punch for its frequent ridicule of this figure. Through my discussion of these pieces I will explore these authors’ motivations for publishing in Punch, rather than a publication with a more sympathetic attitude towards women’s rights, and I will examine the trade-off that required them to mute their feminism in return for a wider audience. The article will also explore how these authors, who were both intelligent, independent women who earned money through writing, made use of humour while publishing in a periodical in which such women were generally the targets of humour rather than the originators of it. This article will highlight the role of female writers in contributing to the portrayal of women in an influential periodical and will expand the view of Punch’s representation of the New Woman beyond the familiar satires and caricatures.

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book . The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.

Evelyn Sharp, a New York businesswoman, investor and philanthropist and the head of a hotelier family that owned and managed some of the country's best-known properties, died on Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was 94 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. A native of Manhattan, she was attending the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1923 when she married Jesse Sharp, an up-and-coming developer and expert in real estate finance. By the time he died in 1941, Mr. Sharp had built and owned large apartment houses and a string of fashionable Manhattan hotels, notably the Stanhope, on Fifth Avenue opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mrs. Sharp took charge of the business, selling and buying her own rich portfolio of properties by 1955.

BEATRICE - Homestead National Monument of America will salute Nebraska aviatrix Evelyn Sharp and the century of flight in a daylong program Sunday at the monument, 4 miles west of Beatrice on Nebraska 4. 2 p.m.: Flyovers above the Monument's tall grass prairie, including one similar to a plane Sharp flew. A Blackhawk helicopter will be on static display for guests to see. 3 p.m.: [Diane Bartels], author of Sharp's biography, will speak about the Sharp's life and times. She also will sign copies of the biography \"Sharpie: The Story of Evelyn Sharp.\"

Evelyn Sharp lecture DELAND This year at the annual Evelyn Sharp Memorial Lecture the Friends of the DeLand Public Library will feature Phyllis McEwen, who will portray folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the library, 130 E. Howry Ave. Refreshments will be served. DeLand Womans DELAND The DeLand Womans Club will have a used book sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, North Woodland Boulevard. Proceeds will help fund the clubs charitable projects. DeLand Chapter, SAR DELAND The DeLand Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will meet for a luncheon at noon Monday at Woodland Towers, 113 Chipola Ave. Howard L. Fisher will speak on digital photography and genealogy. Visitors are welcome but should call Keith Haygood (386) 738-4254 for reservations. Arthritis Support Group DELAND The Arthritis Support Group will meet from 10:30 a.m. to noon Monday in classroom 1A at Florida Hospital DeLand, 701 W.

Few of those who attended the impressive 1999 exhibition of the art of C.R. W. Nevinson at London's Imperial War Museum are likely to have realized how well known had once been the artist's father, mentioned briefly in the exhibition catalogue, Henry Woodd Nevinson. Indeed, although H. W. Nevinson was better known that either of his wives, Margaret Wynne Nevinson and Evelyn Sharp, the names of all three members of this little group would have been recognized by of the reading and politically aware public in the early decades of the twentieth century. Here, Harris contends that the three deserve to be remembered both for the literary interest of their best writing and as historians of their times.

[Evelyn Frances Sharp] was born on July 21, 1919 in Woods Cross, Utah to Frederick James and Edith Jane Burmingham Cleverly. She married Fred L. Sharp on September 16, 1939 which was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

Sharp became a certified instructor and taught about 350 men in Spearfish, S.D., then became one of the nation's first female airmail pilots. She served during World War II in the Army Air Corps as an instructor and a member of Gen. \"Hap\" Arnold's Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. The squadron freed men pilots to fly in Europe by ferrying finished planes from the West Coast to the East Coast.