The Story of a Modern Woman

Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman originally appeared in serial form in the women's weekly The Lady's Pictorial. Like Hepworth Dixon herself, the novel's heroine Mary Erle is a woman writer struggling to make her living as a journalist in the 1880s. Forced by her father's sudden death to support herself, Mary Erle turns to writing three-penny-a-line fiction, works that (as her editor insists) must have a ball in the first volume, a picnic and a parting in the second, and an opportune death in the third. This Broadview edition's rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize The Story of a Modern Woman in relation to contemporary debates about the "New Woman."

Acknowledgments

7

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Introduction

9

(28)

A Brief Chronology

37

(2)

Ella Hepworth Dixon

A Note on the Text

39

(2)

The Story of a Modern Woman

41

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Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews of The Story of a Modern Woman

From W.T. Stead's Review of Reviews, vol. 10, 1894

193

(1)

The Athenaeum, 16 June 1894

194

(1)

The Times, 30 June 1894

195

(1)

The New York Times, 10 June 1894

196

(1)

The New York Tribune, 11 October 1894

197

(1)

The Westminster Review, vol. 142, 1894

198

(1)

The Critic, 9 March 1895

199

(2)

Appendix B: 1883 Map of London and Locations Mentioned in the Novel

201

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Appendix C: Victorian Fear at the End of the Century: The ``New Woman'' Debate

Sarah Grand, ``The New Aspect of the Woman Question,'' 1894

205

(6)

From Ouida's ``The New Woman,'' 1894

211

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``Character Note: The New Woman,'' 1894

216

(4)

From Ella W.Winston's ``Foibles of the New Woman,'' 1896

220

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From Hugh Stutfield's ``Tommyrotics,'' 1895

223

(8)

From Hugh Stutfield's ``The Psychology of Feminism,'' 1897

231

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Appendix D: The New Woman as ``Wild Woman'': The Exchange between E.L. Linton and Mona Caird

From Eliza Lynn Linton's ``The Wild Women as Politicians,'' 1891

236

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From Eliza Lynn Linton's ``The Wild Women as Social Insurgents,'' 1891

238

(4)

From Eliza Lynn Linton's ``The Partisans of the Wild Women,'' 1892

242

(4)

From Mona Caird's ``A Defence of the So-Called `Wild Women','' 1892

246

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Appendix E: Marriage

From Mona Caird's ``Marriage,'' 1888

255

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Ella Hepworth Dixon, ``Why Women Are Ceasing to Marry,'' 1899

260

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Appendix F: Literary Censorship in Victorian England

From George Moore's Literature at Nurse, or Circulating Morals, 1885

267

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Walter Besant, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Thomas Hardy, ``Candour in Fiction,'' 1890

272

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Select Bibliography

289

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