Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle [electronic resource] : Making a Name for Herself /
Gray, F.editor.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Making More than a Name: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Commodification of the Woman Journalist at the Fin de Siècle; 3 'Her usual daring style': Feminist New Journalism, Pioneering Women, and Traces of Frances Power Cobbe; 4 Edith Simcox's Diptych: Sexuality and Textuality; 5 Alice Meynell, Literary Reviewing, and the Cultivation of Scorn; 6 Humanitarian Journalism: The Career of Lady Isabella Somerset; 7 Flora Shaw and the Times: Becoming a Journalist, Advocating Empire
8 'Making a name for Whistler': Elizabeth Robins Pennell as a New Art Critic9 'A fair field and no favour': Hulda Friederichs, the Interview, and the New Woman; 10 Representing the Professional Woman: The Celebrity Interviewing of Sarah Tooley; 11 Ella Hepworth Dixon: Storming the Bastille, or Taking it by Stealth?; 12 Journalism's Iconoclast: Rosamund Marriott Watson ('Graham R. Tomson'); 13 Anti/Feminism: Frances Low and the Issue of Women's Work at the Fin de Siècle; Complete Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British literature.
Journalism.
Sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Journalism.
Gender Studies.
Cultural Theory.