“Slumming in Whitechapel” with Lillie Harris (1863–1921): Disembodiment, Power, and the Female Investigative Journalist

This essay engages with Margaret Beetham’s ideas about embodiment, disembodiment, and power in relation to print to explore a series of anonymous articles entitled “Slumming in Whitechapel,” published in the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph between October 27 and November 17, 1888, at the height of the Ja...

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Published inVictorian periodicals review Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 583 - 599
Main Authors Van Remoortel, Marianne, Demarée, Fien
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2020
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Subjects
19th century
Archives & records
Authorship
Beetham, Margaret
Biographies
Careers
Embodiment
Empowerment
Females
Harris, Lillie (1863-1921)
Journalism
Periodicals
Reading
Serial murders
Text analysis
Women
Working class
United Kingdom > UK
England
London England
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Summary:This essay engages with Margaret Beetham’s ideas about embodiment, disembodiment, and power in relation to print to explore a series of anonymous articles entitled “Slumming in Whitechapel,” published in the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph between October 27 and November 17, 1888, at the height of the Jack the Ripper case. Combining biographical research into the life and career of the unnamed author, Lillie Harris (1863–1921), with in-depth textual analysis of the four articles, it argues that Harris’s embodiment of the female investigative journalist comes at a double cost, disembodying her as an individual and reducing the embodied working-class subjects of Whitechapel to objects.
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ISSN:0709-4698
1712-526X
1712-526X
DOI:10.1353/vpr.2020.0050