Charlotte Eliza Humphry

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Standard Name: Humphry, Charlotte Eliza
Used Form: Mrs C. E. Humphry
Birth Name: Charlotte Eliza Graham
Pseudonym: Madge
Mrs C. E. Humphry , a journalist at a time when the field was just opening up to women, began her career with a popular newspaper column aimed at women. This chatty column appeared in the society scandal journal Truth, under the pseudonym Madge: she is considered one of the originators of the women's gossip column. Following the success of her column, she published further journalism, books on etiquette, running a household, and the rules of behaviour in polite society for both women and men, whose roles are sharply separated. Her advice had widespread public appeal.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Jean Rhys
While Lenglet was away in Holland, JR had to subsist with very little money. She stayed with a friend, the prominent Paris journalist and writer H. Pearl Adam (daughter of Mrs C. E. Humphry ...
Occupation John Oliver Hobbes
JOH was president of the Society of Women Journalists . Charlotte Eliza Humphry succeeded her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Hobbes, John Oliver. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes. J. Murray, 1911.
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Timeline

1894
Newspaper proprietor Joseph Snell Wood founded the Society of Women Writers and Journalists ; launched in London, it has become an international organization.
December 1894
The monthlySylvia's Journal (launched on 31 December 1864 as The Young Englishwoman) ceased publication.