Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl"

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Authors: Elizabeth L. Banks In Year : 1902

Book Language: English

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I Am Committed to the Charge of the Angels
The "Angels" and What They Were Like
I Go to Peru as a "Girl-Diplomat"
Into the Wide, Wide World of Journalism
In London Town
When I Began to Starve in London
I Become a Maidservant
When I Found Myself a "Heroine"
Why I Did Not Become a Salvation Army "Lassie"
A Deal in Ancestors
A Midnight Holocaust
On the Bringing Out of a First Book
An American Millionaire Hunts Me Up
The Departure of Dinah
Economy for Two
An Encounter with Mrs. Lynn Linton
Home Again, and in "The Way of Life"
Some Questions of Journalistic Ethics
"--And Have Not Charity"
"In the Name of Christ"
A Little Joyousness and Some Tragedy
The Love-Story of Miss Johnstone, Journalist
The Story of a "Failure"
Some Proposals and Some Love-Letters
An "Editorial Bouquet"
On Interviewing and Some Interviews
About My Enemies, and the Meanest Man I Ever Met
Looking Backward--and Forward

Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News, Punch, St James' Gazette, and London Illustrated. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweeper, and Covent Garden flower girl. Her later journalistic writings promoted women's right to vote and denounced prison conditions for jailed suffragettes. This memoir was written about 10 years into her career, when she was better known but was not financially secure.
Her public-facing accounts of her "undercover" work are related in Campaigns of Curiosity - Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia