Elizabeth Garver Jordan; Edited with an Introduction by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan; Foreword by Brooke Kroeger

Foreword by Brooke Kroeger
Introduction by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Texts

THE CASE OF LIZZIE BORDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS

I
Newspaper Woman: Seeing “The World”
“A Mountain Preacher” (1890)
From “True Stories of the News”
“Jessie Adamson’s Suicide” (1890)
“The Happiest Woman in New York” (1890)
“A Strange Little East Side Girl” (1891)
“Put Yourself in His Place” (1891)
“The Silver Lining of the Cloud” (1891)

From Coverage of the Lizzie Borden Murder Trial
“The Case of Lizzie Borden” (1893)
“Lizzie’s Dark Day” (1893)
“Miss Borden’s Hope” (1893)
“This is the Real Lizzie Borden” (1893)
“The Newspaper Woman’s Story” (1893)
“What It Means to be a Newspaper Woman” (1899)

II
The City Room and Beyond: Early Newspaper Fictions and Magazine Stories
From Tales of the City Room
“Ruth Herrick’s Assignment” (1894, 1898)
“A Point of Ethics” (1898)
“A Romance of the City Room” (1898)
“Miss Van Dyke’s Best Story” (1898)
From Tales of the Cloister
“Between Darkness & Dawn” (1901)
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“In the Case of Hannah Risser” (1902)
“Mrs. Warburton’s Theories” (1908)

III
The New Woman Comes of Age: May Iverson and Magazine Fiction
From May Iverson—Her Book
“The Voice of Truth” (1904)
“What Dreams May Come” (1904)
From May Iverson Tackles Life
“Woman Suffrage at St. Catharine’s” (1912)
“I Introduce Beauty Culture” (1912)
From May Iverson’s Career
“My First Assignment” (1914)
“The Cry of the Pack” (1914)
“The Case of Helen Brandow” (1914)
“The Revolt of Tildy Mears” (1914)

IV
Collaboration and Literary Activism: Jordan as Editor and Adviser
From The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw with the collaboration of Elizabeth Jordan
Chapter VII: “The Great Cause” (1915)
Chapter IX: “‘Aunt Susan’” (1915) (excerpt)