Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament and Other Short Stories
Edited by Valerie Fehlbaum
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ISBN: 978-1-839542-45-9 (hardback) • RRP £34.99, $48.99, €41.99 ISBN: 978-1-839542-46-6 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-839542-47-3 (JSTOR ebook) In 1904 Grant Richards published a collection of Dixon’s short stories entitled One Doubtful Hour and Other Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament, but since then, in spite of several reprints of her much-acclaimed, so-called ‘New Woman’ novel, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894), most of Dixon’s ‘clever modern tales’, as The Times’ critic described them, have remained out of print. The stories had all previously appeared during the preceding decade in various periodicals, some aimed at a primarily female readership such as The Lady’s Pictorial, others at a wider, more general public, for example Pall Mall Magazine or The Yellow Book. This edition follows the format of Dixon’s own collection which consisted of ten stories, together with a few extras, such as those which had been published in Oscar Wilde’s Woman’s World and those containing embryonic elements later re-worked into her celebrated novel and her less well-known play, The Toyshop of the Heart (performed in 1908, but never published). A comprehensive introduction sets Dixon and her work in the historical, literary and social context in which she thrived, and a critical commentary examines the changes she herself made between original publication and book form. Valerie Fehlbaum is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Geneva. Bibliography entry: Fehlbaum, Valerie (ed.), Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament and Other Short Stories, Critical Texts, 83 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2023) First footnote reference: 35 Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament and Other Short Stories, ed. by Valerie Fehlbaum, Critical Texts, 83 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2023), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Fehlbaum, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Fehlbaum, Valerie (ed.). 2023. Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament and Other Short Stories, Critical Texts, 83 (Cambridge: MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Fehlbaum 2023: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Fehlbaum 2023: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Ella-Hepworth-Dixon www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-83 |
Spring 2023