Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl"
Author: first_name: Elizabeth L.
last_name: Banks
Language: English
Year: 1902

Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as <i>The Daily News</i>, <i>Punch</i>, <i>St James' Gazette</i>, and <i>London Illustrated</i>. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweeper, and Covent Garden flower girl. Her later journalistic