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.
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Textual Production
Helen Mathers
A publisher's note in the one-volume publication of 1892 called the book a genuine novelty. The idea of a novel written by twenty-four popular writers is certainly an original one. The ladies and gentlemen who...
Timeline
1894: Newspaper proprietor Joseph Snell Wood founded...