New Woman

plural New Women

1. historicalAn educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.

   These ladies, actuated by the modern spirit of independence, have yet nothing in common with the “New Woman”—if, which we doubt, this feminine Frankenstein be indeed among us, waiting to fall upon us to our undoing.

   1896–1897, Wilhelmina Wimble, “Incomes for Ladies”, in The Lady's Realm, volume 1, page 104