Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
LoNDoN's WOMEN REPORTERS.
Some of the English Females Who Have
Become known by Their Pen.

Some of the EnglISn Eemales VINO nave
Become known by Their Pen.
One of the most clever of the article con-
tributors to such papers as the Queen and
the Lady's Pictorial is Miss de Grasse
Stevens, of New York, whose sister is mar
ried to the member for Southampton. Her
picture, together with three column &C
count of her books and her American an
cestry, appears in one of the weekly papers.
The correspondents in London of some of
the largest of provincial papers are also
ladies, and in two instances the wives of
members of parliament while an occasional
contributor of he heaviest matter in
weekly review is said to be the young
daughter of an English nobleman, who
can present the man who seeks her hand
with an income of 100000 year.
Of the actual women reporters, | have so
far only come across about half a dozen.
OF these the most conspicuous perhaps is
Mrs. Crawford, the heroine of the famous
Dixie divorce case. She is a singularly
bright and well informed woman, and it is
said that she wrote the first interview ever
published in The Pail Mall Gazette
She is still pretty and decidedly young
looking woman, and among the successes
of her pen are the instructive converse
tions which she managed to obtain from
Booth and many other men who make it
their aim in life to alleviate the troubles of
the poor. Mrs Crawford also receives
regular assignments for all sorts of odd
work, even to reporting cases in police
courts, and she does her work so cleverly
and unobtrusively that she has made many
warm friends among the very newspaper
men loudest in their protests against the
admission of feminine reporters to their
ranks.
Another hard working female reporter is
Frances Low, sister of the editor of The st.
James Gazette She does not get any work
on her brothers paper, but manages to exc
out a living by contributing gossip to The
Star, The Pail Mall Gazette and some OF
the smaller women's papers. Although
her signature would suggest English ma
tionality she is really of Hungarian birth
as her father is a Hebrew gentleman from
Prague of the name of Lowe. His chill
dren, long residents in England, Anglicizet
themselves by clipping the sc" from thel
name.
Strange - say, however, one of the mos
bitter writer's against the Russian Jews is
Miss Lows brother, of The St. James
She is q young looking woman, with thu
black eyes and sharp features of daugh
ter of Israel, and she may be often seer
working out her notes in one of the man,
aerated bread shops which abound in Lon
don.
The most prominent, however, of Lon
don women reporters is Marie Belloc,
round little fat dumping of a woman, VIII
can be seen trotting up Fleet street and tn
Strand at all hours of the day. She man
ages to make good deal of money, pal
ticularly as she is Mr.. Stead's chief assist
ant on The Review of Reviews. She is nc
more than twenty-five years of age, but sh
is full of assurance, and has more tina
once succeeded in obtaining news wher
men have failed miserably.
In a general way, however, London
woman reporter is either a very loud an
overdressed woman or very shabby an
underdressed female. She waves her car
defiantly in the air, and passes a Cerberu
before the guardian animal has time
realize what has happened. Nothing e.
capes her ears or her eyes once she is il
side, and if ever the new journalism, or, {
it is called here, American journalism, b
comes rampant in England, it will be tt
female, not the male, reporter in Londo
who will make or mar it.-London Co
New York Press.