Dixon, E: The Story of a Modern Woman

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-55111-380-7
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Paperback

Reihe: Broadview Editions

Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman originally appeared in serial form in the women's weekly The Lady's Pictorial. Like Hepworth Dixon herself, the novel's heroine Mary Erle is a woman writer struggling to make her living as a journalist in the 1880s. Forced by her father's sudden death to support herself, Mary Erle turns to writing three-penny-a-line fiction, works that (as her editor insists) must have a ball in the first volume, a picnic and a parting in the second, and an opportune death in the third.

This Broadview edition's rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize The Story of a Modern Woman in relation to contemporary debates about the "New Woman.

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Über Autor(innen)

Steve Farmer teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is the editor of the Broadview editions of Wilkie Collins's Heart and Science (1996) and The Moonstone (1999).