Front-Page Girls : Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 / Jean Marie Lutes.

The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like Henrietta Stackpole, the lady-correspondent in...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Lutes, Jean Marie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Ã2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Into the Madhouse with Girl Stunt Reporters
  • 2. The African American Newswoman as National Icon
  • 3. The Original Sob Sisters: Writers on Trial
  • 4. A Reporter-Heroine's Evolution
  • 5. From News to Novels
  • Epilogue: Girl Reporters on Film
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index