The term “New Woman” was coined by the writer and speaker Sarah Grand in 1894 it was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late nineteenth century a time where women were subdued and were not given desirable status and rights . It soon became a popular and a catchy-phrase in newspapers and books and journals. The New Woman, a significant cultural icon of the of the time, originated from the stereotypical Victorian woman who was exactly an opposite of the women which was being portrayed from centuries. She was intelligent, educated, emancipated, independent and self-supporting and a one who could take stand for herself. The New Women were not only middle-class female radicals, but also factory and office workers. As Sally Ledger rote: many years later because o her words in the March 1894 North American Review that had inspired a vehement response from fellow woman. writer Ouida, who called the New Woman a menace to humankind…with her fierce vanity, her undigested knowledge, her over-weening estimate of her own value and her fatal want of all sense of the ridiculous.”
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His Diana is a character who is head and shoulders above most nineteenth century fictional English heroines and in contrast to the real life Victorian women,. Her situations involves errors in judgment but becomes a glory to her afterwards, and her inclination towards her career tells the reader’s that whatever situation may arrive she will achieve the desired dream not considering the difficulties she might face. Diana, beautiful, witty, and skeptical of social convention and moral expediency, is the embodiment of Meredith’s philosophy and art, and she shows that an individual can extract wisdom from life’s experiences. He portrayed his heroine as new women in Victorian era who goes against the flow and brings a new flow in the era and stands against subjugation of women and thus brings out a newly reformed