Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, 1995, http://University of Waterloo - Porter.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Mary Frances Billington | Having been elected president of the Society of Women Journalists
, MFB
served in this post through most of the First World War. |
| Occupation | Nina Bawden | NB
sat on various literary committees: PEN International
, the Society of Authors
, and the Royal Society of Literature
. She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
, following in... |
| Other Life Event | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | CEH
was a member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
, founded in 1894 by J. S. Wood
, who was also the editor of a weekly illustrated paper for women called The... |
| politics | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
was named the first vice-president of the Society of Women Journalists (SWJ)
, an organization founded that year by Joseph Snell Woodwith the objective to unite women journalists for mutual protection and advancement. Clarke, Meaghan. “New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City”. Gissing in the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England, edited by John Spiers and John Spiers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 31-40. 32 |
| Reception | Mary Frances Billington | As evidenced by her position as a delegate to Canada with the Empire Press Union
in 1920, MFB
was one of the most important journalists working in the early twentieth century. Her writings on India... |
| Reception | Nina Bawden | NB
was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
(where she was an undergraduate). She was President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
. She was made CBE in 1995, and was a... |
| Textual Features | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
credits Queen Mary
and her attempts to mobilize women in the workforce for the passing of that sense of utter impotence which possessed [women] in the first days of the war. Billington, Mary Frances. The Roll-Call of Serving Women: A Record of Woman’s Work for Combatants and Sufferers in the Great War. The Religious Tract Society, 1915. 24 |
| Textual Production | Mary Frances Billington | Owing perhaps to her more adventurous Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Travel | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
visited Ottawa as sole female delegate to the Second Imperial Press Conference (of the Empire Press Union
), for representatives of newspapers from across the British Empire. Officially, she represented the SWJ
. Donald, Robert. The Imperial Press Conference in Canada. Hodder and Stoughton, 1920, http://http://archive.org/stream/imperialpresscon00donarich#page/n0/mode/2up. 1 |
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1894: Newspaper proprietor Joseph Snell Wood founded...
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1894
Newspaper proprietor Joseph Snell Wood
founded the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
; launched in London, it has become an international organization.
“Welcome Page”. Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
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