Ella Hepworth Dixon
Subtitle: the story of a modern woman
By: Valerie Fehlbaum.
Series: The nineteenth century series; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Dixon, Ella Hepworth.; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Ella Hepworth Dixon's work, like that of the majority of her contemporaries, remained largely unread for decades. In her new study, Valerie Fehlbaum sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides profound insight not only into Dixon herself but into the multifaceted character of the 'New Woman' writer that Dixon typified." "The figure of the New Woman as representing new-found intellectual, social, and political freedom came to the fore towards the end of the nineteenth century when the term 'woman' was being interrogated on every imaginable level. In heated debates about woman's nature, primary questions such as 'What is a woman?' and 'What does a woman want?' were accompanied by subsidiary controversies about the precise role she should play in society. Fehlbaum's reevaluation of Dixon's varied literary output enhances our understanding of this period of radical change for women, and shows that Ella Hepworth Dixon's writing remains as lively and pertinent today as it was when it was first published."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: As I knew them : Ella Hepworth Dixon's own story of a modern woman; title: Ella Hepworth Dixon and the new woman; title: "The Bastille of journalism"; title: Short stories of modern women; title: The story of a modern woman; title: "The world of the theatre."