The Story of a Modern WomanElla 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 This Broadview edition’s rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize The Story of a Modern Woman in relation to contemporary debates about the “New Woman.” |
Contents
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Contemporary Reviews of The Story of a Modern Woman | 193 |
1883 Map of London and Locations Mentioned in the Novel | 201 |
Victorian Fear at the End ofthe Century The New Woman Debate | 204 |
The New Woman asWild Woman The Exchange between EL Linton and Mona Caird | 236 |
Marriage | 255 |
Literary Censorship in Victorian England | 267 |
Select Bibliography | 289 |
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