Abstract
The popular writer Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) is most frequently remembered as the author of the “mutiny” novel On the Face of the Waters (1896). Scholarship has tended to focus on her fiction and autobiographical writing and has taken little, if any, cognizance of her journalism. This article rectifies that lack of critical attention by offering an analysis of some of Steel's periodical articles for the Lady's Realm in 1897 and the Saturday Review between 1903 and 1904, which engaged with a number of contentious elements of the Woman Question. Steel's self-professed “oracular” pronouncements on gendered controversies relating to marriage and mother–daughter relations are situated within contemporary debates. Her use of accepted notions of femininity in a number of unconventional ways and the deployment of colonial cultural capital in gender debates are explored as she sought to take up complex progressive-conservative postures on turn-of-the-century womanhood.
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