A Lady's Portion
- Episode aired Aug 1996
- 30m
"The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper r... Read all"The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women re... Read all"The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).