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 This Broadview edition's rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize The Story of a Modern Woman in relation to contemporary debates about the "New Woman.
| ISBN: | 9781551113807 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2004 |
| Author: | Ella Hepworth Dixon |
| Publisher: | Broadview Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 295 pages |
| Series: | Broadview Editions |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |