Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl"
By Elizabeth L. Banks · Running time 09:25:05 · Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
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Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News , Punch , St James' Gazette , and London Illustrated . She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweeper, and Covent Garden flower girl. Her later journalistic writings promoted women's right to vote and denounced prison conditions for jailed suffragettes. This memoir was written abo
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