"In 1877, Winslow Homer exhibited his watercolor, The New Novel, at an exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. It is an image that below its surface of innocent, leisurely repose churns a contemporary cultural scene fraught with change and fear; the culture-war in the US had begun.... The New Novel captures the moment and encapsulates its cultural context. This is a young woman languidly...." http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2009/12/14/winslow-homer-and-the-women-of-the-new-novel/