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In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women’s magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After…
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In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women’s magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. The author…
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
In this groundbreaking novel, Ella Hepworth Dixon tells the story of a young woman's journey from humble beginnings to a life of success and independence. Filled with social commentary and…
This work lightly comments on the conditions and plight of women in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. It examines their social conditions which made them highly dependent on…
WHAT was the fortune of Flora? Nobody seemed to know, and what was more curious, nobody seemed to like to ask; yet it was impossible for a young couple to…
In the dining-room the prim, thin Chippendale furniture was ranged against a pale-coloured wall, while the round table, with its fine damask and Georgian silver, and the soft lamplight illumining…
This novel’s heroine of the 1890s must earn her own living in a society whose power and values are rooted firmly in a patriarchal system. Radical Fiction Series.
Title: The Story of a Modern Woman. [A novel.]
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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Ella Hepworth Dixon (pen name, Margaret Wynman; 1857-1932) was an English author and editor. Her best-known work is the New Woman novel The Story of a Modern Woman, which has…
A quarter to ten? He would hardly come now; he always had a nice eye to the proprieties. But his cab might have broken down; he might have been detained…
Publisher: Cassell Publication date: 1894 Subjects: Family
This Broadview edition’s rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize The Story of a Modern Woman in relation to contemporary debates about the New Woman.
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