ABSTRACT
The Woman's Work section was arranged by a committee of titled ladies; 'the only name of a really working woman upon the committee was that of the distinguished woman artist, Henrietta Rae.' Florence Fenwick Miller was a highly prolific journalist; like Alice Meynell, she contributed to over a dozen different periodicals from the 1870s until the 1910s. The Illustrated London News, unlike the platform or the feminist journal, offered opportunities for a more subtle strategy of filtering the political through the cultural: it enabled the integration of feminism within a mainstream press aimed at a broad readership. In contradistinction to Meynell, Florence Fenwick Miller was not born into a well-travelled family that already moved in elite cultural circles. Rather her writings about art were the result of her involvement in the shifting and volatile campaign for women's rights. The radical nature of her reputation meant that Fenwick Miller's signature was both a benefit and liability to the Illustrated London News.
