During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
6
She met diplomat Lord Cromer
, newspaper proprietor Lord Northcliffe
(then Alfred Harmsworth), industrialist Arthur Balfour
Material Conditions of Writing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
used a quill pen for her writing, which she did during the mornings, the quiet hours before the household demands her attention.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
296
This left the later part of the day for her busy...
Occupation
Rosita Forbes
For RF
's next journey (heading for Mecca and Medina but reaching only to Jeddah) she was offered remuneration of five thousand pounds by Lord Northcliffe
, a sum which represented to me security...
Reception
Ella Hepworth Dixon
In 1896 a critic wrote that EHD
was much sought after by editors because she writes carefully, punctually, and honestly, never scamping. Apart from her consistently high quality (Alfred Harmsworth
called her the...
Textual Features
Mary Stott
Why, Stott wonders, do national newspapers print so few leading articles by women, when Harriet Martineau
was writing regular leaders for the Daily News back in the mid nineteenth century? Why has there never been...
Timeline
4 May 1896: Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe,...
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4 May 1896
Alfred Harmsworth
, later Lord Northcliffe, launched a halfpenny newspaper entitled the Daily Mail: the first mass-circulation daily paper, it was destined to a long run.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
870
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
2 November 1903: The London Daily Mirror began publication...
Building item
2 November 1903
The LondonDaily Mirror began publication with a woman editor, Mary Howarth
, as a penny paper for gentlewomen by gentlewomen.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
367
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Stott, Mary. “Women in Newspapers”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 126-32.
126-7
1911: William Waldorf Astor bought the Observer...
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1911
William Waldorf Astor
bought the Observer newspaper (founded in 1791) from Lord Northcliffe
for £5,000.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Waldorf Astor
1918: The weekly magazine Forget-Me-Not, launched...
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1918
The weekly magazine Forget-Me-Not, launched by Alfred Harmsworth
in 1891, ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.