The New Woman writers at the end of the nineteenth century are often assumed to have been outside of the English social order that they criticized, as was the case, for example, with politically radical South Africans such as Olive Schreiner or sexually adventurous Americans such as Gertrude Atherton. If not foreign born, then they are still thought to have belonged by birth or by choice to those who distanced themselves from bourgeois British preoccupations, as was true of E. Nesbit, a founder of Fabian Socialism and a partner in an open marriage. But novelists such as Florence Henniker, who produced the brilliantly bitter tale of marital hypocrisy Second Fiddle (1912), and Ella Hepworth Dixon, author of My Flirtations (1892) and The Story of a Modern Woman (1894), serve as reminders that some of the harshest censure of the English social system came from insiders who were appalled by the exploitation...