Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005.
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Literary responses | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Once published, the novel was an astounding success. Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005. 127 Dixon, Ella Hepworth. The Story of a Modern Woman. Editor Farmer, Steve, Broadview, 2004. 196-7, 196n1 |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | Arnold was particularly critical of W. T. Stead
, whom he referred to as the inventor of new journalism. qtd. in Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001. 62 |
Occupation | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
was earning enough from her career in journalism to be able to support herself by her late teens. She established herself as a successful writer and editor for national dailies and a career journalist... |
politics | Anna Kingsford | William T. Stead
said of AK
's abilities as a speaker: I have talked to many of the men and women who have in this generation had the greatest repute as conversationalists, but I never... |
politics | Josephine Butler | JB
was closely involved with The Maiden Tribute, W. T. Stead
's exposé of child abduction and forced prostitution in London, which began to appear in the Pall Mall Gazette in July. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190: 71 |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | She remained active in a range of political causes until her death. W. T. Stead
in 1894 billed her as the oldest New Woman now living on this planet. qtd. in Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 7 |
Author summary | Anna Kingsford | Anna Kingsford
, described by W. T. Stead
as one of the most interesting and fascinating of the women of the Victorian era, Review of Reviews. 13 (January 1896): 75 |
Publishing | Annie Besant | AB
and William Stead
founded The Link magazine, which first appeared on 4 February 1888; each weekly issue sold for a halfpenny. The front page quoted Victor Hugo
: I will speak for the dumb... |
Publishing | Eliza Lynn Linton | This controversial work sold very well. A third edition appeared within three months, and a tenth by 1890. Later reprints included one in William T. Stead
's Penny Series. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Textual Features | Mary Stott | Why, Stott wonders, do national newspapers print so few leading articles by women, when Harriet Martineau
was writing regular leaders for the Daily News back in the mid nineteenth century? Why has there never been... |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | The novel deals with the politics behind the warfare: the military struggle for control of Sudan betweenMuhammad Ahmad
(self-styled the Mahdi, a redeemer figure in Islam
) versus the powers of Egypt and Turkey... |
Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | May Sinclair
provided an introduction; those who communicated with CADS
were H. F. N. Scott
, Cornish writer Henry Dawson Lowry
, preacher and politician George Dawson
, and journalist W. T. Stead
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | JB
published her portrait Rebecca Jarrett, about the reformed prostitute who had helped W. T. Stead
expose sexual traffic in children. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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