She was offered this position by F. V. White
on the strength of her novel The Story of a Modern Woman. As an editor she was following in the footsteps of her celebrated father
Family and Intimate relationships
Ella Hepworth Dixon
Their sister Marion
became an artist and to some extent a writer, and on at least one occasion acted as literary agent for her younger sister Ella.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
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Dedications
Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD
published her autobiographical New Woman novel (indeed, her only novel), The Story of a Modern Woman, dedicated to her sister Marion
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. The Story of a Modern Woman. Editor Farmer, Steve, Broadview.
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