Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman Book

Fehlmaum (English, U. of Geneva, Switzerland) examines the work of British journalist, critic, editor, fiction writer, and autobiographer Dixon (1857-1932). She finds her writing to be highly revelatory of the early days of mass media when journalists were learning to write for immediate consumption. Dixon also became ever more elusive, she says, as more and more of her contemporaries focused on the New Women, and seems to have undermined the notion, as she did various other stereotypes. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR