ENGL 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: William Hepworth Dixon, Ouida, North American Review
30 Nov 2015
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Dies 12 january 1932, savoy hotel, london. Father was william hepworth dixon, famous author, world traveler, journalist, and editor. William"s fame meant authors and artists gravitated toward the family household. Ella was the 7th of 8 children, and she received a superior education for a woman of the time; she was privately tutored. Think of the modern woman as a semi-biographical novel. At the acad mie, exhibited her painting work in the late 1870s. Soon gave up painting in favor of writing; painting remains an influence on her works however. Early death of her father meant that she increasingly had to make her living through writing. Perhaps her most famous journalistic work was her editorship of the. Woman"s world, which she effectively took over from oscar wilde. Also edited the englishwoman in the mid-1890s and served as art critic for. Began publishing fiction in many of the magazines she worked for, most the st. james gazette importantly in lady"s pictorial.
