B. Onslow

Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-68378-1
• 2000
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780333683781
• ISBN-10: 0333683781
• Artikelnr.: 44374681

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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