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Women in Journalism At the Fin De Siecle - ''Making a Name for Herself''

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Zusatztext Recommended by Choice Informationen zum Autor BRENDA AYRES Professor of English, Liberty University, USALEE ANNE BACHE Indiana University, USA FIONNUALA DILLANE University College Dublin, Ireland TERRI DOUGHTY Vancouver Island University, CanadaALEXIS EASLEY Associate Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, USAVALERIE FEHLBAUM University of Geneva, Switzerland SUSAN HAMILTON Professor of English, University of Alberta, CanadaDOROTHY O. HELLY Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies, Hunter College, USA LINDA K. HUGHES Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, USAKIMBERLEY MORSE JONES Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College, USAMICHELLE TUSAN Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, USA Klappentext As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic choices of women battling against the odds to secure recognition in a male-dominated society. Zusammenfassung As the nineteenth-century drew to a close! women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists! and each essay examines the career! writing and strategic choices of women battling against the odds to secure recognition in a male-dominated society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; F.E.Gray Making More than a Name: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Commodification of the Woman Journalist at the Fin de Siecle; L.A.Bache 'Her usual daring style': Feminist New Journalism, Pioneering Women, and Traces of Frances Power Cobbe; S.Hamilton Edith Simcox's Diptych: Sexuality and Textuality; B.Ayres Alice Meynell, Literary Reviewing, and the Cultivation of Scorn; F.E.Gray Humanitarian Journalism: The Career of Lady Isabella Somerset; M.Tusan Flora Shaw and the Times: Becoming a Journalist, Advocating Empire; D.O.Helly 'Making a Name for Whistler': Elizabeth Robins Pennell as a New Art Critic; K.Morse Jones 'A Fair Field and No Favour': Hulda Friederichs, the Interview, and the New Woman; F.Dillane Representing the Professional Woman: The Celebrity Interviewing of Sarah Tooley; T.Doughty Ella Hepworth Dixon: Storming the Bastille, or Taking it by Stealth?; V.Fehlbaum Journalism's Iconoclast: Rosamund Marriott Watson ('Graham R. Tomson'); L.K.Hughes Anti/Feminism: Frances Low and the Issue of Women's Work at the Fin de Siecle; A.Easley Complete Bibliography Index...

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; F.E.Gray Making More than a Name: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Commodification of the Woman Journalist at the Fin de Siecle; L.A.Bache 'Her usual daring style': Feminist New Journalism, Pioneering Women, and Traces of Frances Power Cobbe; S.Hamilton Edith Simcox's Diptych: Sexuality and Textuality; B.Ayres Alice Meynell, Literary Reviewing, and the Cultivation of Scorn; F.E.Gray Humanitarian Journalism: The Career of Lady Isabella Somerset; M.Tusan Flora Shaw and the Times: Becoming a Journalist, Advocating Empire; D.O.Helly 'Making a Name for Whistler': Elizabeth Robins Pennell as a New Art Critic; K.Morse Jones 'A Fair Field and No Favour': Hulda Friederichs, the Interview, and the New Woman; F.Dillane Representing the Professional Woman: The Celebrity Interviewing of Sarah Tooley; T.Doughty Ella Hepworth Dixon: Storming the Bastille, or Taking it by Stealth?; V.Fehlbaum Journalism's Iconoclast: Rosamund Marriott Watson ('Graham R. Tomson'); L.K.Hughes Anti/Feminism: Frances Low and the Issue of Women's Work at the Fin de Siecle; A.Easley Complete Bibliography Index

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