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First Lady of Fleet Street
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First Lady of Fleet Street (2011) (edit title/settings)

The Life, Fortune and Tragedy of Rachel Beer

by Eilat Negev (Author), Yehuda Koren (Author) (edit contributors)

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Rachel Beer was both a rebel and a pioneer. In the late 19th century, at a time when women were still denied the vote, she became the first woman ever to edit a national British newspaper - in fact two, The Sunday Times and the Observer. It was to be over eighty years before another woman took... read more

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  • “"In 1799 Lord Belgrave drafted the Sunday Newpaper Supression Bill because The Observer was a weapon of infidels 'to deter Christians from a decent observance of the Lord's Day'. ......the bill was opposed by Irish playwright MP Richard Brinkley Sheridan who argued that 'there was an exception in favour of mackerel on the Lord's Day, but might not people think stale news as bad as stale mackerel?"”
  • “"William Windham, the Secretary of War, objected to Sheridan's comparison since ' readers of Sunday weekly papers seldom expected fresh news in them; besides news were not necessarily to a man's well- being as food was'. the bill was voted down but the selling of Sunday papers still remained an offence"”

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In August 1893, the fashionable photographer Harry Bedford-Lemere spent several days at Rachel and Frederick Beer's mansion in Mayfair.

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Prologue

Chapter One -- Portraits and Personalities
Chapter Two -- Flight from Baghdad
Chapter Three -- Opium and Further Expansion
Chapter Four -- Their Dual Identity
Chapter Five -- Gaining a Foothold
Chapter Six -- Candidly and Constantly
Chapter Seven -- Fatherless
Chapter Eight -- A Court Jew
Chapter Nine -- A German in London
Chapter Ten -- A Girdle Round the Earth
Chapter Eleven -- 170 Strand
Chapter Twelve -- Five Funerals
Chapter Thirteen -- The Marriage Market
Chapter Fourteen -- A Newspaper Heir
Chapter Fifteen -- Rien sans Peine
Chapter Sixteen -- A Newspaper of Her Own
Chapter Seventeen -- 46 Fleet Street
Chapter Eighteen -- A New Woman
Chapter Nineteen -- Rivals
Chapter Twenty -- Double Burden
Chapter Twenty-One -- All of Paris in a Fever
Chapter Twenty-Two -- An Encounter in London
Chapter Twenty-Three -- Hoisting the Flag at Pretoria
Chapter Twenty-Four -- And the Tears in Her Eyes Grew Large on Their Ledge
Chapter Twenty-Five -- Breakdown
Chapter Twenty-Six -- After the Storm
Afterword

Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index

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  1. Eilat Negev (Author)
  2. Yehuda Koren (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: JR Books
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: April 24, 2011
ISBN: 1906779198
Page Count: 526

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