The Canadian novelist Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861-1922) constructed a New Woman heroine in the fin-de- siècle novel, A Daughter of Today (1894). Writtenin the popular mode of the transatlantic novel, the work engages in debate on the appropriate construction of femininity in art and public life. The heroine, Elfrida Bell, descends from artist, to muse, to model, to paintedimage-a descent framed by a rival male artist and a hostile London art scene. Represented as Psyche, the heroine undergoes a quest and failure similar to the mythical one. Adaptation of the Psyche myth clarifies the position of Duncan in the spectrum of gender ideologies of the fin-de-siècle.
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机译：加拿大小说家莎拉·珍妮特·邓肯（Sara Jeannette Duncan，1861-1922年）在有鳍的小说《今日的女儿》（A894 of Today，1894年）中构造了一位新女性女主人公。该作品以跨大西洋小说的流行形式撰写，就艺术和公共生活中女性气质的适当建构展开了辩论。女主人公埃尔弗里达·贝尔（Elfrida Bell）从艺术家到缪斯，模特儿，到绘画图像的后裔，这是一位敌对的男性艺术家和敌对的伦敦艺术界所描绘的血统。女主人公以赛琪（Psyche）的名义经历了一次类似于神话般的探索和失败。赛斯神话的改编阐明了邓肯在末尾性别观念中的地位。
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