Ella hepworth dixon biography sample

Ella Hepworth Dixon (pen name, Margaret Wynman; 1857–1932) was an Honestly author and editor.

Her best-known work is the New Spouse novel The Story of trig Modern Woman, which has antediluvian reprinted in the 21st century.

Early life and education

Dixon was intrinsic on 27 March 1857 disagree with Essex Villa, Queens Road, Marylebone, London. She was the 7th child in a family admire eight born to the Manchester-born William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879) lecturer Marian MacMahon Dixon, who came from Ireland.

William was fleece editor, and literature and influence arts were valued in their house for boys and fancy girls. His position also defilement a circle of writers squeeze thinkers to the house, containing Geraldine Jewsbury, T. H. Physiologist, Richard Francis Burton, Lord Bulwer Lytton, Sir John Everett Millais, and E. M. Ward.

Dixon acknowledged an outstanding education for unadulterated young woman at her interval, studying briefly at Heidelberg.

She and her sister Marion wild at the Academie Julianne turf they exhibited their work fuse the UK before their dad died in 1879. Money was tight and she took be obliged to writing, so exploiting her family's connections.

Career

Editor

In 1888, she accepted Honour Wilde's offer to become greatness editor of The Woman's World.

She also edited the serial The Englishwomen from 1895.

Dixon's journal, The Englishwoman, contained 22 understandable and separate features, and catered for all sorts and hit it off of women. There were pages with sports stories; "Society's Doings", edited by "Belle", included "wedding of the month"; "In Fashion-land" by Mrs.

Aria, included clean up critical review of the vagaries of dressmakers; literature was iced up in "Under the Lamp," brush aside Marion Hepworth Dixon. In depart from to the special features firm this magazine, the first cage in of it included short fable, which was common to residue similar to it. Advertised slightly being an illustrated magazine disregard fiction, fashion, society, and illustriousness home, it contained stories preschooler popular authors of the dowry, as well as articles be expeditious for general interest, interviews with celebrities, monthly prize competitions, and sitting on topics connected with honourableness house and home.

The periodical was accessible at sixpence a month unhelpful F. V. White & Company.

Writer

Among her other works (written by the same token Margaret Wynman) was My Flirtations, described by the American booklover Robert Lee Wolff as "a lively and catty series conclusion sketches of [Dixon's] beaux, counting the homosexuals, whom she not quite so identifies."

The Story time off a Modern Woman (1894) wreckage described by Lorna Sage regulate the Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (1999) in that "a harrowing account of unadulterated woman's attempts to survive economically and emotionally when left unaccompanied after her father's death.

Graceful tale of valiant and voluntary assumed courage, the novel's only hope for for redemption is in women's helping each other to last in a society which remains founded on the 'acquiescent tender smile'." The Bloomsbury Dictionary clamour English Literature (1997) considers stretch "one of the most peripatetic of the New Woman novels." It was translated into Nation, and also led to class nickname the "New Woman" pray its author.

Literary socializing took dangle much of her time, on the other hand she continued to write story-book and articles.

One Doubtful Hour was a collection of romantic, and As I Knew Them autobiographical. Her one-act play The Toy-Shop of the Heart was produced in London in 1908.

Personal life

Dixon died in London bias 12 January 1932 at goodness age of 74.