The American Scholar: “Lede-ing Ladies: How Female Journalists Transformed Journalism.” Review of “Starry and Restless” by Anne Matthews, March 2, 2026

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“Starry and Restless is best read in conjunction with the recent individual biographies of all three writers, plus the women-reporting-war classics of Julia Edwards and Nancy Caldwell Sorel as well as Brooke Kroeger’s 2023 Undaunted.“