Posts Tagged ‘women journalists’
From the Archives: Shin-Kickers from History: Mary Heaton Vorse
As some of you may have noticed, for the last year or so I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Not entirely on purpose. I’ve done a number of Q & As with the authors of books set in the era.) …
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From the Archives: Bessie Beatty and the Red Heart of Russia
A post form 2022 for your amusement while I catch up on the things that piled up during Women’s History Month. New posts soon, I promise! *** I was recently digging about in the history of women’s magazines in the early twentieth century when I came across a familiar name: Bessie Beatty. I knew Beatty’s…
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Queen of Bohemia: A Q & A with Eve Kahn
I’m delighted to have Eve Kahn back on the Margins to talk about her new book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris. Queen of Bohemia is the story of a Kentucky-born belle turned ferocious New York journalist who used her pen to advocate for impoverished immigrants and to expose…
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