The story of a modern woman
By: Ella Hepworth Dixon ; edited by Steve Farmer.
Contributors: Farmer, Steve, 1957-
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont; Orchard Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction; Women journalists -- Fiction; Fathers -- Death -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman originally appeared in serial form in the women's weekly The Lady's Pictorial. Like Hepworth Dixon herself, the novel's heroine Mary Erle is a woman writer struggling to make her living as a journalist in the 1880s. Forced by her father's sudden death to support herself, Mary Erle turns to writing three-penny-a-line fiction, works that (as her editor insists) must have a ball in the first volume, a picnic and a parting in the second, and an opportune death in the third."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-295).