Starry and restless : three women who changed work, writing, and the world / Julia Cooke

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, Julia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998.

Gellhorn, Martha.

Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997.

Hahn, Emily.

West, Rebecca, 1892-1983.

West, Rebecca.

Women journalists--Biography.

Women journalists.

Women authors--Biography.

Women authors.

Journalists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies

Physical Description:

x, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.

Summary:

"She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter's father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances of overzealous Yugoslavian diplomats, found overlooked details of world history in a dentist's kitchen in Sarajevo. She traveled alone to Mexico. She traveled alone to Congo. She traveled alone to the American South. She married Hemingway. She married a Chinese poet-playboy-publisher, then married a British war hero. She fell in love with H. G. Wells. She gave birth and raised a child on her own. She landed on the front page of the newspaper. She wrote for the great magazines of her time--Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar. She wrote a play. She wrote a memoir. She wrote a genre-breaking travel narrative. She wrote bestsellers. She wrote and wrote and wrote. She changed the very way we think about writing and the way journalists craft stories--which sources are viable, which details are important--and the way women move and work in the world. She was Martha Gellhorn. She was Emily "Mickey" Hahn. She was Rebecca West. Each woman was starry-eyed for success, for adventure, and helped ensure that other starry and restless women could make unforgettable lives for themselves. They fought for their lives and their work. They were praised and criticized for it all."

Contents:

Prologue: Mickey: At sea, 1930

Introduction: The woman journalist

Part One: A stranger even to myself. Rebecca: Yugoslavia, 1936

Mickey: On the way to China, 1935

Martha: Spain, 1937

Part Two: The urgency of geography. Mickey: China, 1938

Martha: Cuba, 1939

Rebecca: England, 1940

Martha: China, 1941

Mickey: Hong Kong, 1941

Part Three: Never do your own housework. Mickey: Hong Kong, New York, 1943

Rebecca: England, 1944

Martha: Italy, Germany, England, 1944-1946

Rebecca: England, Germany, United States, 1953

Rebecca: England, South Africa, Mexico, 1954

Afterword: The restless woman

Notes

Recommended reading

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index.

ISBN:

0374609780

9780374609788

OCLC:

1513885855

Publisher Number:

CIPO000331582