January 31, 2023
Indexed here are posts I’ve written while Undaunted goes through its publishing paces. They are prompted by events I’ve participated in, news that relates to the book’s themes, and some of the research I conducted that ended up in the 37,000 words I cut or relegated to endnotes from early drafts.
Ishbel Ross’s 1936 Ladies of the Press and Undaunted
Imitation of Life, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Cassandra of Feminism’s Second Wave, Fannie Hurst
At What Used to Be Called “The Front Page Ball”
First Amendment: Judy Garland’s Defamation Suit Put Reporter Marie Torres Behind Bars
Of [More], Life, Susan Brownmiller, Norman Mailer, and The Prisoner of Sex
To Edgar Allan Poe, This Top Editor Was “A Pretty Little Witch”
About Those Sliced-and-Otherwise-Diced-and-Otherwise-Dubious-Gender-and-Racial-Firsts
Prompted By Word of a New Biography of Lydia Maria Child
The Boston Globe Trove at Northeastern Holds Its Share of Forgotten Women Journalists
Meet Us At the Corner Where Journalism, Race, and Gender Intersect
Dorothy Thompson: She Tore Through Europe “Like Richard Harding Davis in an Evening Gown”