{"product_id":"the-story-of-a-modern-woman","title":"The Story of a Modern Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\nElla Hepworth Dixon’s \u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Modern Woman\u003c\/em\u003e originally appeared in serial form in the women’s weekly \u003cem\u003eThe Lady’s Pictorial\u003c\/em\u003e. Like Hepworth Dixon herself, the novel’s heroine Mary Erle is a woman writer struggling to make her living as a journalist in the 1880s. Forced by her father’s sudden death to support herself, Mary Erle turns to writing three-penny-a-line fiction, works that (as her editor insists) must have a ball in the first volume, a picnic and a parting in the second, and an opportune death in the third.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThis Broadview edition’s rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize \u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Modern Woman\u003c\/em\u003e in relation to contemporary debates about the “New Woman.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233518358877,"sku":null,"price":31.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781551113807.jpg?v=1792204706","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/the-story-of-a-modern-woman","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}