Charlotte Eliza Humphry

01 January 1851 - 02 April 1925

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.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hobbes, John Oliver. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes. J. Murray, 1911. 96

Timeline

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.

December 1894

The monthly Sylvia's Journal (launched on 31 December 1864 as The Young Englishwoman) ceased publication.

Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.

217

Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.

Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Texts

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. A Word to Women. James Bowden, 1898.

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. “Girl’s Gossip”. Te Aroha News, Vol.

, No. 207, p. 3.

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. “How to be Pretty Though Plain”. The University of Chicago Press Books.

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. How to be Pretty Though Plain. James Bowden, 1899.

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. Manners for Men. 1st ed., James Bowden, 1897.

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. Manners for Women. Second Edition, James Bowden, 1897.

Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. “The Art of Good Living”. The Gentlewoman: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Gentlewomen, Vol.

, No. 1094, p. 14.