Campaigns of curiosity : journalistic adventures of an American girl in late Victorian London
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Campaigns of curiosity : journalistic adventures of an American girl in late Victorian London
(Wisconsin studies in autobiography)
University of Wisconsin Press, c2003
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Campaigns of curiosity : journalistic adventures of an American girl in London
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Originally published: Chicago : F. Tennyson Neely, 1894
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxviii-xliv)
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ISBN 9780299189402
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In the early 1890s American journalist Elizabeth L. Banks became an international phenomenon through a series of newspaper articles aptly titled "Campaigns of Curiosity." Following the lead of pioneering woman journalist Nellie Bly, Banks gained notoriety through undercover assignments as a "stunt girl." Disguising herself in various (and often hilariously inappropriate) costumes, Banks investigated and made public the working conditions of women in London. Writing from the perspective of an unrepentant American girl, she explored and exposed a variety of employment, ranging from parlor maid to flower girl to American heiress. Through her writings, Banks demonstrated the capability of women for positions in newsrooms and other traditionally male journalistic spaces to which women sought entry. For her efforts, which originally were only to support her while she made attempts at serious journalism, Banks became the subject of poems and songs and acquired instant fame. Originally published in 1894, this autobiography offers insights into the development of women journalists and the cultural discourses and subsequent rhetorical practices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Banks s autobiography is one of the few if not the only complete works of 1890s women s stunt journalism in print."
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: pbk. ISBN 9780299189440
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In the 1890s American journalist Elizabeth L. Banks became an international phenomenon through a series of newspaper articles. Disguising herself in various costumes, Banks investigated and made public the working conditions of women in London. Writing from the perspective of an American girl, she explored and exposed a variety of employment, ranging from parlor maid to flower girl to American heiress. Banks demonstrated the capability of women for positions in journalism long held only by men.
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