Best known work

• The Story of a Modern Woman, 1894

Genres

• Fiction - Novels
• Journalism
• Plays

Nom de plume

Margaret Wynman, Ella Nora Hepworth Dixon

Social class

Middle class

Parental background

Her father was an author. Hepworth Dixon was privately tutored and briefly schooled abroad.

At publication of best known work

• Age: 36
• Marital status: Unmarried
• Number of children: 0

Physical description

"A charming-looking woman with curly brown hair and a pert nose" (Nicola Beauman, ODNB)

Did you know?

Despite Dixon's renown as a feminist and champion of women's issues, many of the features in the journal she edited, The Englishwoman, were decidedly traditional in content. Examples include “A Day’s Shopping”; “In Fashionland”; “Housekeeping (‘The Everyday Dinner’)” and “Gardens and Gardening. (See Jad Adams, in The Latchkey at http://www.thelatchkey.org/Latchkey5/essay/Adams.htm)

Additional information

A biography and selected list of publications is available at 1890s online and the Yellow Nineties online. The Latchkey includes a wonderfully informative essay entitled "Feminist Solidarity in the Life and Work of Ella Hepworth Dixon".