This thesis analyses the ways in which the New Woman Movement of the 1890s is reflected in Bram Stoker’s construction of his female characters in Dracula. It shows that the image of the New Woman is modified and redefined through already existing female tropes which include the Angel in the House, the Fallen Woman and the femme fatale. Thus, it is argued, two versions of the New Woman emerge: an acceptable, “proper”, New Woman who is an educated and competent worker, but also a submissive wifely and/or motherly figure and whose character traits correspond to conservative Victorian notions of female propriety. The other, unacceptable, variant is a sexual New Woman whose interests and aspirations are trivial, indulgence-seeking and, m...