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Blue pencils & hidden hands : women editing periodicals, 1830-1910 / edited by Sharon M. Harris with Ellen Gruber Garvey.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's periodicals, American--History--19th century.
- Women's periodicals, American.
- Women's periodicals, American--History--20th century.
- Women periodical editors--United States--Biography.
- Women periodical editors.
- American periodicals--History--19th century.
- American periodicals.
- American periodicals--History--20th century.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 279 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Blue pencils and hidden hands
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This collection of original critical essays explores how women periodical editors in the long 19th century redefined women's identities and roles, and influenced public opinion about such issues as abolition and woman suffrage.
- Contents:
- Part I Apprenticeship
- Editing The Jabberwock: A Formative Experience for Nineteenth-Century Girls / Lucille M. Schultz 3
- Excerpt from The Jabberwock 19
- Literary and Commercial Aspects of Women's Editions of Newspapers, 1894-1896 / Ann Mauger Colbert 20
- Excerpt from The Nashville American 36
- Part II Editing as Impetus
- "Her Object Is Good": Ann S. Stephens and Portland Magazine / Jennifer Blanchard 41
- Excerpts from Portland Magazine 58
- "Where Women May Speak for Themselves": Miriam Frank Leslie's "Ladies' Conversazione" / Linda Frost 60
- Excerpts from Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner 75
- Frances Wright of the Free Enquirer: Woman Editor in a Man's World / Carolyn Karcher 80
- Excerpt from the Free Enquirer 96
- Lucy Stone and The Woman's Journal / Katharine Rodier 99
- Excerpt from The Woman's Journal 121
- Eyes in the Text: Marianna Burgess and The Indian Helper / Jacqueline Fear-Segal 123
- Excerpt from The Indian Helper 144
- Pauline E. Hopkins as Editor and Journalist: An African American Story of Success and Failure / Hanna Wallinger 146
- Excerpt from Colored American Magazine 170
- "Yours for the Indian Cause": Gertrude Bonnin's Activist Editing at The American Indian Magazine, 1915-1919 / James H. Cox 173
- Excerpts from The American Indian Magazine 198
- Part III Career Editors
- Antebellum Lady Editors and the Language of Authority / Steven Fink 205
- Excerpt from Ladies' Magazine 222
- Subtle Subversion: Mary Louise Booth and Harper's Bazar (1867-1889) / Paula Bernat Bennett 225
- Excerpts from Harper's Bazar 244
- "It has served the truth without fear and without favor": Kate Field and Kate Field's Washington / Gary Scharnhorst 248
- Excerpt from Kate Field's Washington 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1555536131
- OCLC:
- 53846367
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