Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth Viscount Northcliffe
Standard Name: Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth,,, Viscount
Used Form: Lord Northcliffe
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
used a quill pen for her writing, which she did during the mornings, the quiet hours before the household demands her attention. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 296 |
| Occupation | Rosita Forbes | For RF
's next journey (heading for Mecca and Medina but reaching only to Jeddah) she was offered remuneration of five thousand pounds by Lord Northcliffe
, a sum which represented to me security... |
| Reception | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In 1896 a critic wrote that EHD
was much sought after by editors because she writes carefully, punctually, and honestly, never scamping. Apart from her consistently high quality (Alfred Harmsworth
called her the... |
| 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... |
Timeline
4 May 1896: Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe,...
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4 May 1896
Alfred Harmsworth
, later Lord Northcliffe, launched a halfpenny newspaper entitled the Daily Mail: the first mass-circulation daily paper, it was destined to a long run.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
870
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
2 November 1903: The London Daily Mirror began publication...
Building item
2 November 1903
The LondonDaily Mirror began publication with a woman editor, Mary Howarth
, as a penny paper for gentlewomen by gentlewomen.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
367
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Stott, Mary. “Women in Newspapers”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 126-32.
126-7
1911: William Waldorf Astor bought the Observer...
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1911
William Waldorf Astor
bought the Observer newspaper (founded in 1791) from Lord Northcliffe
for £5,000.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Waldorf Astor
1918: The weekly magazine Forget-Me-Not, launched...
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1918
The weekly magazine Forget-Me-Not, launched by Alfred Harmsworth
in 1891, ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
217
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