Model Women of the Press - Gender, Politics and Womens Professional Journalism, 18501880

It offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of 'model women of the press': women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of abbreviations
Note on References
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Introduction
1 Feminist and Professional: The English Woman's Journal
2 Living on Political Journalism: The Early Careers of Eliza Meteyard and Frances Power Cobbe
3 Writing from the Field: The Female Foreign Correspondent
4 Writing Women: Fictional Representations of the Female Journalist
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Teja Varma Pusapati is an Associate Professor of English at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Women's Writing, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Teja Varma Pusapati
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032593616
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3259361-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900