Model Women of the Press

It offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of 'model women of the press': women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice.

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Teja Varma Pusapati is an Associate Professor of English at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Women's Writing, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.

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It offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of 'model women of the press': women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice.

Inhalt

List of Figures

List of abbreviations

Note on References

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

1 Feminist and Professional: The English Woman's Journal

2 Living on Political Journalism: The Early Careers of Eliza Meteyard and Frances Power Cobbe

3 Writing from the Field: The Female Foreign Correspondent

4 Writing Women: Fictional Representations of the Female Journalist

5 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index