Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle: Making a Name for HerselfF. Gray 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
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Eliza Lynn Linton and the Commodification of the Woman Journalist at the Fin de Siècle | 21 |
Feminist New Journalism Pioneering Women and Traces of Frances Power Cobbe | 37 |
Sexuality and Textuality | 53 |
5 Alice Meynell Literary Reviewing and the Cultivation of Scorn | 71 |
The Career of Lady Isabella Somerset | 91 |
Becoming a Journalist Advocating Empire | 110 |
Elizabeth Robins Pennell as a New Art Critic | 129 |
Hulda Friederichs the Interview and the New Woman | 148 |
The Celebrity Interviewing of Sarah Tooley | 165 |
Storming the Bastille or Taking it by Stealth? | 182 |
Rosamund Marriott Watson Graham R Tomson | 202 |
Frances Low and the Issue of Womens Work at the Fin de Siècle | 218 |
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