ABSTRACT
Journalism, it will be remarked, was rarely included in such surveys of possible employments for women, or merited separate treatment altogether. The 'journalistic world' did provide Ella Hepworth Dixon with a career, if not a fortune, and allowed her to express her views on the 'human comedy'. Journalism provided Ella Hepworth Dixon with interesting, purposeful work, which enabled her to promote, in theory and in practice, the cause of other women and to remain an independent bachelor woman herself. It was a source of valuable background material for some of her fiction. In a telling 'Pensees de Femme', cited in the Foreword, she perhaps foresees the growing intrusion of a certain form of journalism. Journalism was first and foremost her livelihood, and, since all her fiction initially appeared in periodicals, it is impossible to imagine her career outside the world of journals.
