The first lady of Fleet Street

• Verfasst von: Negev, Êlat
• Verfasst von: Qôrēn, Yehûdā
• Titel: The first lady of Fleet Street
• Titelzusatz: the life of Rachel Beer: crusading heiress and newspaper pioneer
• Verf.angabe: Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren
• Ausgabe: 1. U.S. ed.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Bantam Books
• Jahr: 2011
• Umfang: X, 349 S., [4] Bl.
• Illustrationen: Ill.
• Format: 25 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-553-80743-1
• ISBN: 0-345-53238-4
• ISBN: 0-553-80743-9
• ISBN: 978-0-345-53238-1
• Schlagwörter: (p)Beer, Rachel / (f)Biographie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: AP 23100
• K10plus-PPN: 661127052

Abstract

Portraits and personalities -- Flight from Baghdad -- Opium and further expansion -- Their dual identity -- Gaining a foothold -- Candidly and constantly -- Fatherless -- A court Jew -- A German in London -- A girdle round the earth -- 170 Strand -- Five funerals -- The marriage market -- A newspaper heir -- Rien sans peine -- A newspaper of her own -- 46 Fleet Street -- A new woman -- Rivals -- Double burden -- All of Paris in a fever -- An encounter in London -- Hoisting the flag at Pretoria -- And the tears in her eyes grew large on their ledge -- Breakdown -- After the storm -- Afterword