No open-and-shut ase …

… Miscellaneous Musings and Reviews: Charles Dickens: 150 years on, debate still rages over his ‘misogynist’ label,

… he was especially supportive of women’s efforts to reach out to a wider public sphere within his own field of expertise – literature and journalism. For the author of the Household Words essay, the Rights and Wrongs of Women, was a woman – and the first English female newspaper correspondent to draw a fixed salary: Eliza Lynn (Linton).