Title

‘How Little I Cared for Fame’: T. Sparrow and Women’s Investigative Journalism at the Fin de Siècle

Author(s)

Laura Vorachek, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2016

Publication Source

Victorian Periodicals Review

Abstract

This article analyzes the work of an overlooked female journalist, T. Sparrow, arguing that her career reveals the difficulties female journalists faced when negotiating between the expectations of middle-class gentility and the demands of investigative journalism.

Sparrow asserted her gentility rhetorically, in part because female reporters who took up investigative reporting were vulnerable to criticism for assaying beyond domestic subjects. Moreover, incognito investigative reporting often brought celebrity to its practitioners, which challenged the convention of middle-class female modesty.

Sparrow, therefore, strove for a delicate balance in her career—assuming the stance of a middle-class woman who lived among the poor, someone who was self-supporting and well-published but still decorous and respectable.

Inclusive pages

333-361

ISBN/ISSN

0709-4698

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

This document is provided for download in compliance with the publisher's policy on self-archiving. Permission documentation is on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2016, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Volume

49

Issue

2

Peer Reviewed

yes

eCommons Citation

Vorachek, Laura, "‘How Little I Cared for Fame’: T. Sparrow and Women’s Investigative Journalism at the Fin de Siècle" (2016). English Faculty Publications. 91.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eng_fac_pub/91