Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780333683781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 309 str.

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Opis

Drawing on varied contemporary sources and a database covering hundreds of women, this work assesses women's contribution to 19th-century journalism and how it affected the careers of writers as diverse as George Eliot, Anna Maria Hall, Mary Braddon and Charlotte Yonge.

Spis treści

Foreword Introduction Obstacles and Opportunities A Fifth State At Our Library Table: Reviewers and Critics Something to Say, A Living to Earn: Periodicals Contributors In the Editor's Chair A Niche in the Market Handmaids and Decorators A Press for a Purpose Jill of All Trades: Journalism and the Professional Writer Journalism and the Novel Afterword Select Biographical Appendix Select Bibliography Index

O autorze

BARBARA ONSLOW is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading. She has published on women's writing, including journalism in Victorian Poetry and Victorian Periodicals Review.