The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-27
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LoNDoNs WOMEN REPORTERS.

Some of the English Females Who Have
Become known by Their Pen.
One of the most clever of the article con-
<ributors to such papers as the Queen and
fhe Lady's Pictorial is Miss de Grasse
Stevens, of New York, whose sister is mar
1ied to the member for Southampton. He
,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 the 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 e30, 600 year.
Of the actual women reporters, have SO
far only come across about half 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
tions which she managed to obtain from
Canon Farrar Cardinal Manning, General
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
F-so Jg fIo
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 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, Anglicized
themselves by clipping the 20" from their
name
Strange to say, however, one of the most
bitter writers against the Russian Jews is
AilSS LOW bIOtuCIb VI nc d.
She is a young looking woman, with the
black eyes and sharp features of daugh-
ter of Israel, and she may be often seen
working out her notes in one of the many
aerated bread shops which abound in Lon
don.
The most prominent, however, of Lon
don women reporters is Marie Belloc, a
round little fat dumping of woman, who
can be seen trotting up Fleet street and the
Strand at all hours of the day. She man
ages to make a good deal of money, par
ticularly as she is Mr.. Stead's chief assist
ant on The Review of Reviews. She is not
more than twenty-five years of age, but she
3 is full of assurance, and has more than
once succeeded in obtaining news where
men have failed miserably.
In a general way, however, London's
woman reporter is either a very loud and
overdressed woman or a very shabby and
underdressed female. She waves her card
defiantly in the air, and passes a Cerberus
before the guardian animal has time to
realize what has happened. Nothing es-
capes her ears or her eyes once she is in
side, and if ever the new journalism, or, az
1t Is called here, American journalism, be-
comes rampant in England, it will be the
female, not the male, reporter in London
who will make or mar it.-London Cor.
New York Press.