Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siecle: Making a Name for Herself offers a fascinating introduction to the work and lives of twelve significant women journalists in Britain at the turn of the century. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, women became increasingly numerous and prominent in British journalism, promoting themselves as never before, and capitalizing in new ways on the changing conditions of journalism. Treating redoubtable Victorians like Frances Power Cobbe and Eliza Lynn Linton as well as turn-of-the-century iconoclasts like Rosamund Marriott Watson, each essay examines the career, writing, and strategic choices of women battling the odds to secure recognition and reward in a male-dominated industry. These journalists engaged with a wide array of periodical titles and topics, intervening in some of the most pressing debates of the day: colonial politics, labour conditions, cultural and literary debates, and aspects of the Woman Question including suffrage, childcare, and marriage law.
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 Simcoxs 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 Journalisms Iconoclast: Rosamund Marriott Watson (Graham R. Tomson); L.K.Hughes Anti/Feminism: Frances Low and the Issue of Womens Work at the Fin de Siecle; A.Easley Complete Bibliography Index