First lady of Fleet Street
Subtitle: the life, fortune and tragedy of Rachel Beer
By: Eilat Negev & Yehuda Koren
Contributors: Koren, Yehuda
Publisher: JR Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781906779191
Subjects: Observer (London, England); Biography; Newspaper publishing; Women publishers; Women newspaper editors; Sunday times (London, England : 1822); Newspaper editors; History
Table of contents: title: Portraits and personalities; title: Flight from Baghdad; title: Opium and further expansion; title: Their dual identity; title: Gaining a foothold; title: Candidly and constantly; title: Fatherless; title: A court Jew; title: A German in London; title: A girdle round the earth; title: 170 Strand; title: Five funerals; title: The marriage market; title: A newspaper heir; title: Rien sans peine; title: A newspaper of her own; title: 46 Fleet Street; title: A new woman; title: Rivals; title: Double burden; title: All of Paris in a fever; title: An encounter in London; title: Hoisting the flag at Pretoria; title: And the tears in her eyes grew large on their ledge; title: Breakdown; title: After the storm.