Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle: Making a Name for Herself

272 Pages·2012·1.072 MB·English

by  F. Elizabeth Gray (eds.)

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth- Century Writing and Culture
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‘THE JEW’ IN L ATE- VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN CULTURE
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Heike Bauer
ENGLISH LITERARY SEXOLOGY
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Luisa Calè and Patrizia Di Bello (editors)
ILLUSTRATIONS, OPTICS AND OBJECTS IN NINETEENTH- CENTURY LITERARY AND
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MINDS, BODIES, MACHINES, 1770–1930
Colette Colligan
THE TRAFFIC IN OBSCENITY FROM BYRON TO BEARDSLEY
Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth- Century Print Culture
Eleanor Courtemanche
THE ‘INVISIBLE HAND’ AND BRITISH FICTION, 1818–1860
Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
Stefano Evangelista
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John Gardner
POETRY AND POPULAR PROTEST
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
F. Elizabeth Gray (editor)
WOMEN IN JOURNALISM AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
Making a Name for Herself
Yvonne Ivory
THE HOMOSEXUAL REVIVAL OF RENAISSANCE STYLE, 1850–1930
Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh and Jon Mee (editors)
CHARLES DICKENS, A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
REPUBLICAN POLITICS AND ENGLISH POETRY, 1789–1874
Kirsten MacLeod
FICTIONS OF BRITISH DECADENCE
High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin de Siècle
Diana Maltz
BRITISH AESTHETICISM AND THE URBAN WORKING CLASSES, 1870–1900
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (editors)
VERNON LEE
Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Muireann O’Cinneide
ARISTOCRATIC WOMEN AND THE LITERARY NATION, 1832–1867
David Payne
THE REENCHANTMENT OF NINETEENTH- CENTURY FICTION
Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization
Julia Reid
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, SCIENCE, AND THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
Virginia Richter
LITERATURE AFTER DARWIN
Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859–1939
D. Shapple Spillman
BRITISH COLONIAL REALISM IN AFRICA
Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains
Anne Stiles (editor)
NEUROLOGY AND LITERATURE, 1860–1920
Caroline Sumpter
THE VICTORIAN PRESS AND THE FAIRY TALE
Sara Thornton
ADVERTISING, SUBJECTIVITY AND THE NINETEENTH- CENTURY NOVEL
Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls
Ana Parejo Vadillo
WOMEN POETS AND URBAN AESTHETICISM
Passengers of Modernity
Phyllis Weliver
THE MUSICAL CROWD IN ENGLISH FICTION, 1840–1910
Class, Culture and Nation
Paul Young
GLOBALIZATION AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION
The Victorian New World Order
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Women in Journalism at the
Fin de Siècle
Making a Name for Herself
Edited by
F. Elizabeth Gray
Senior Lecturer, Massey University, New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-349-34836-7 ISBN 978-1-137-00130-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9781137001306
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © F. Elizabeth Gray 2012
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This book is dedicated to my mother, Pamela Anne Gray,
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you have helped light my way
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introduction 1
F. Elizabeth Gray
2 M aking More than a Name: Eliza Lynn Linton and the
Commodification of the Woman Journalist at the Fin de Siècle 21
Lee Anne Bache
3 ‘ Her usual daring style’: Feminist New Journalism,
Pioneering Women, and Traces of Frances Power Cobbe 37
Susan Hamilton
4 Edith Simcox’s Diptych: Sexuality and Textuality 53
Brenda Ayres
5 Alice Meynell, Literary Reviewing, and the Cultivation of Scorn 71
F. Elizabeth Gray
6 Humanitarian Journalism: The Career of Lady Isabella Somerset 91
Michelle Tusan
7 F lora Shaw and the Times: Becoming a Journalist,
Advocating Empire 110
Dorothy O. Helly
8 ‘ Making a name for Whistler’: Elizabeth Robins Pennell as a
New Art Critic 129
Kimberly Morse Jones
9 ‘ A fair field and no favour’: Hulda Friederichs, the Interview,
and the New Woman 148
Fionnuala Dillane
10 R epresenting the Professional Woman: The Celebrity
Interviewing of Sarah Tooley 165
Terri Doughty
11 E lla Hepworth Dixon: Storming the Bastille, or Taking it
by Stealth? 182
Valerie Fehlbaum
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12 J ournalism’s Iconoclast: Rosamund Marriott Watson
(‘Graham R. Tomson’) 202
Linda K. Hughes
13 A nti/Feminism: Frances Low and the Issue of Women’s
Work at the Fin de Siècle 218
Alexis Easley
Complete Bibliography 236
Index 254
Acknowledgements
First and foremost, the editor wishes to express her heartfelt appreciation
to the contributors to this volume for their keen interest, their rigorous
scholarship, and their comradely collaboration. It has been an unmitigated
pleasure working with you on this project.
The editor would like to acknowledge the financial assistance provided
by Massey University, New Zealand, in the form of a University Women’s
Award (2009–10), which helped in the preparation of this book. Thanks
are also due to the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing
for teaching support while I was deeply engaged in the writing and editing
process, and to Nicky McInnes in particular, for finding solutions to seem-
ingly insoluble problems. Debbie Gamble’s careful bibliographical work and
eye for detail in the late stages of preparation of the manuscript were much
appreciated. Hannah Benson’s creativity and talent made an invaluable
contribution to the volume’s design.
Warm thanks are due to Drs Nikki Hessell, Ingrid Horrocks, and Sarah
Ross, who read sections of this manuscript, were interested and supportive
at every stage of the process, and offered kind, shrewd, invaluable advice.
Thank you for being, as always, ‘the better craftswomen’. Thank you to
my parents, Murray and Pam Gray, and particularly to my mother, whose
passionate interest in pioneering women has helped inspire me.
Thanks from my heart to my husband, Nigel Edgecombe, collaborator in
all I do and my coauthor in the most joyous production of my life.
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