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14/06/2011 GMT

Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer

BBC World Service - Witness History, Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer

The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper

Rachel Beer challenged the prejudices of Victorian England and reached the top of journalism, only to be engulfed by disaster and lose everything.

An account of the remarkable life of Rachel Beer, who challenged the prejudices of Victorian England. She reached the top in journalism to become the first ever female editor of a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, only to be engulfed by disaster and lose everything.

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