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Duval and the Woman Employee
Grennan, Simon
Grennan, Simon
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2020-11-03
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This Chapter will examine aspects of the life and work of Duval as both
exemplary of and, in some aspects in contradiction to, conceptions of the emerging
roles of professional women in the journals and literature of the later nineteenth
century. Utilising both Duval’s drawings and her historic place in the remediation
culture of new serialised papers, the novel and popular theatre productions in the
1870s and 80s, the chapter will extrapolate and examine shared characteristics in the
fictional women newspaper journalists Henrietta Stackpole (in James’ The Portrait of a
Lady, 1881) and Elsie Bengough (in Onions’ The Beckoning Fair One, 1911).
Considering the impact of class on nineteenth century gendering of professional work,
first in Patmore’s iteration of the “separate spheres” of agency of men and women in
The Angel in the House (1854, derived from de Toqueville’s 1840 Democracy in
America), and then in Sarah Grand’s antithetical The New Aspect of the Woman
Question (1894), in which the term “new woman” first appeared, the chapter will chart
the transformation of women’s domestic work into new types of professional
occupations––particularly the new, equivocally gendered, professions that arose with
the advent of serial journals, including Judy, or The London Serio-Comic Journal. The
Chapter will argue for more diverse conceptions of the lives of urban professional
women in the later nineteenth century, touching on recent critiques of masculine
constructions of ‘journalistic’ observation and public commentary.
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Grennan, S. (2020.) Marie Duval and the woman employee. In Grennan, S., Sabin, R. & Waite, J. (Eds.), Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian cartoonist. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press
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9781526133540