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Summary:

"The first and only comprehensive collection of writings by Elizabeth Garver Jordan, the groundbreaking journalist, suffragist, and editor whose fearless reporting on women preceded the #MeToo movement and popularized the true-crime genre. A Penguin Classic The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings is the first to collect Garver Jordan's fiction and journalism, much of which has been out of print for over a century. Jordan began her career as a reporter, making her name as one of few women journalists to cover the Lizzie Borden murder trial for the New York World in 1893. Jordan's distinctive, narrative-driven coverage of the Borden and other high-profile murder cases brought her national visibility, and she turned increasingly to fiction writing. Drawing on her experiences as a true-crime reporter and newspaper editor, she published detective novels and short story collections such as Tales of the City Room that explored the fine line between women's criminality and crimes against women. Employing popular genre conventions as a means of dealing with women's issues, Jordan exposed gendered abuse in the workplace and the prevalence of sexual violence. The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings encourages readers to draw a historical trajectory from Jordan's pioneering literary activism to the writings of contemporary journalists and novelists whose work continues to fuel discussions of gender, feminism, and crime, raising questions about who gets to tell women's stories, especially in the wake of the #MeToo movement"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Newspaper woman : seeing "the world"
• The city room and beyond : early newspaper fictions and magazine stories
• The new woman comes of age : May Iverson and the seeds of #MeToo
• Collaboration and literary activism : Jordan as editor and advisor.

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, 1867-1947 , author

Contributors:

Carr, Jane (Jane Greenway) , editor

Harrison-Kahan, Lori , editor

Kroeger, Brooke, 1949- , writer of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The case of Lizzie Borden and other writings [by Jordan, E.G.]

Included Works:

Case of Lizzie Borden [by Jordan, E.G.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Case of Lizzie Borden and other writings [by Jordan, E.G.] ([New York] : Penguin Books, [2024] — ISBN 9780143137603; LCCN 2023047227)

Related Series:

Penguin classics

Subjects:

Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, 1867-1947

American literature — 19th century

American literature — 20th century

American literature — Women authors

Journalism — United States

Women journalists — United States — Biography

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource.

ISBNs:

9780593511701 (ebook)
0593511700
9780143137603 (trade paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023047228

OCLC Numbers:

1418891145

Other Control Numbers:

3628581 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306494507