Full Description
As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic choices of women battling against the odds to secure recognition in a male-dominated society.
Contents
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; F.E.Gray Making More than a Name: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Commodification of the Woman Journalist at the Fin de Siecle; L.A.Bache 'Her usual daring style': Feminist New Journalism, Pioneering Women, and Traces of Frances Power Cobbe; S.Hamilton Edith Simcox's Diptych: Sexuality and Textuality; B.Ayres Alice Meynell, Literary Reviewing, and the Cultivation of Scorn; F.E.Gray Humanitarian Journalism: The Career of Lady Isabella Somerset; M.Tusan Flora Shaw and the Times: Becoming a Journalist, Advocating Empire; D.O.Helly 'Making a Name for Whistler': Elizabeth Robins Pennell as a New Art Critic; K.Morse Jones 'A Fair Field and No Favour': Hulda Friederichs, the Interview, and the New Woman; F.Dillane Representing the Professional Woman: The Celebrity Interviewing of Sarah Tooley; T.Doughty Ella Hepworth Dixon: Storming the Bastille, or Taking it by Stealth?; V.Fehlbaum Journalism's Iconoclast: Rosamund Marriott Watson ('Graham R. Tomson'); L.K.Hughes Anti/Feminism: Frances Low and the Issue of Women's Work at the Fin de Siecle; A.Easley Complete Bibliography Index
