The Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl"


Lu par TriciaG

(4.2 stars; 10 reviews)

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 (9 hr 25 min)

Chapitres

I Am Committed to the Charge of the Angels 11:01 Lu par TriciaG
The "Angels" and What They Were Like 22:53 Lu par TriciaG
I Go to Peru as a "Girl-Diplomat" 26:51 Lu par TriciaG
Into the Wide, Wide World of Journalism 25:49 Lu par TriciaG
In London Town 20:49 Lu par TriciaG
When I Began to Starve in London 24:28 Lu par TriciaG
I Become a Maidservant 22:19 Lu par TriciaG
When I Found Myself a "Heroine" 26:14 Lu par TriciaG
Why I Did Not Become a Salvation Army "Lassie" 13:52 Lu par TriciaG
A Deal in Ancestors 27:44 Lu par TriciaG
A Midnight Holocaust 15:19 Lu par TriciaG
On the Bringing Out of a First Book 6:20 Lu par TriciaG
An American Millionaire Hunts Me Up 20:43 Lu par TriciaG
The Departure of Dinah 13:53 Lu par TriciaG
Economy for Two 26:05 Lu par TriciaG
An Encounter with Mrs. Lynn Linton 20:10 Lu par TriciaG
Home Again, and in "The Way of Life" 25:30 Lu par TriciaG
Some Questions of Journalistic Ethics 22:57 Lu par TriciaG
"--And Have Not Charity" 7:24 Lu par TriciaG
"In the Name of Christ" 22:21 Lu par TriciaG
A Little Joyousness and Some Tragedy 19:51 Lu par TriciaG
The Love-Story of Miss Johnstone, Journalist 23:15 Lu par TriciaG
The Story of a "Failure" 20:34 Lu par TriciaG
Some Proposals and Some Love-Letters 17:24 Lu par TriciaG
An "Editorial Bouquet" 21:11 Lu par TriciaG
On Interviewing and Some Interviews 23:09 Lu par TriciaG
About My Enemies, and the Meanest Man I Ever Met 17:39 Lu par TriciaG
Looking Backward--and Forward 19:20 Lu par TriciaG

Critiques

Outstanding book


(5 stars)

First if all, this book is excellent. I love how the author shares her experiences as a journalist so beautifully. Secondly, I enjoyed TriciaG's reading, in my opinion, she vividly reads so well, this made the book extraordinary.


(5 stars)

A great and entertaining autobiography of a clever and resourceful woman. The author’s writing style is wonderful and very agreeable to listen to, and thank you to the reader for bringing it to life!


(4.5 stars)

absolutely a all around winner! it has interest, and some very interesting cultural comparisons between the American and the British people at this time.

Excellent!


(5 stars)

A great writer and a great story. My only wish is that it were longer. Well read too.

berty


(5 stars)

Excellent story and so well read.