by Kim Todd
“kind, courteous, and persistent effort”: Arthur Brisbane to Nellie Bly, June 28, 1907, Box 12, Folder Brisbane, Arthur/Bly, Nellie, 1907–1912, SULBF.
“doing much more useful work”: Arthur Brisbane to Nellie Bly, June 13, 1912, Box 12, Folder, Brisbane, Arthur/Bly, Nellie, 1907–1912, SULBF.
“Nellie Bly was THE BEST”: Quoted in Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 509.
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Archives and Special Collections
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Elizabeth L. Banks Papers. University of Tulsa, Special Collections and University Archives at McFarlin Library (UTBP).
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Works by Elizabeth Banks
Pollock, Polly. “She Aspires to Love.” St. Paul Globe, September 14, 1888.
–––. “Fashions at Home.” St. Paul Globe, September 23, 1888.
–––. “A Womanly Woman.” St. Paul Globe, November 4, 1888.
–––. “Polly’s Confession.” St. Paul Globe, November 25, 1888.
–––. “Presents Pinching.” St. Paul Globe, January 6, 1889.
Banks, Elizabeth. “As Ourselves See Us.” Chicago Tribune, December 17, 1892.
–––. Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London. Chicago: F. T. Neely, 1894.
–––. “First Day on $3 per Week.” Evening World, December 9, 1897.
–––. “What She Eats on $3 per Week.” Evening World, December 10, 1897.
–––. “Hardships of Living on $3 per Week.” Evening World, December 11, 1897.
–––. “Hard Work to Live on $3 per Week.” Evening World, December 13, 1897.
–––. “She Can’t Live on $3 per Week.” Evening World, December 14, 1897.
–––. “Can Starve, Not Live, on $3 a Week.” Evening World, December 15, 1897.
–––. “American ‘Yellow Journalism.’” Nineteenth Century 44 (August 1898).
–––. “The American Negro and His Place.” Nineteenth Century 46 (September 1899).
–––. The Autobiography of a “Newspaper Girl.” London: Methuen & Co., 1902.
–––. The Remaking of an American. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.
Works by Elizabeth Cochrane
Orphan Girl [Nellie Bly]. “The Girl Puzzle.” Pittsburg Dispatch, January 25, 1885.
Bly, Nellie. “Mad Marriages.” Pittsburg Dispatch, February 1, 1885.
–––. “Superior Soothing.” Pittsburg Dispatch, August 7, 1887.
–––. “Women Journalists.” Pittsburg Dispatch, August 21, 1887.
–––. “Behind Asylum Bars.” World, October 9, 1887.
–––. “Inside the Madhouse.” World, October 16, 1887.
–––. “Untruths in Every Line.” World, October 16, 1887.
–––. Ten-Days in a Madhouse. New York: Ian L. Munroe, [n.d.]. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html.
–––. “The Girls Who Make Boxes.” World, November 27, 1887.
–––. “King of the Lobby.” World, April 1, 1888.
–––. “Hangman Joe at Home.” World, September 30, 1888.
–––. “Should Women Propose?” World, November 11, 1888.
–––. “Should Women Propose?” World, November 18, 1888.
–––. “Among the Mad,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 118 (January 1889).
–––. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. New York: Pictorial Weeklies Company, 1890, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.html.
–––. “Dr. Parkhurst to Nellie Bly.” World, December 10, 1893.
–––. “Rents Did It.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 13, 1894.
–––. “At Pullman.” St. Joseph Daily Herald, July 13, 1894.
–––. “Their Only Hope,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 17, 1894.
–––. “Nellie Bly Says.” Evening World, February 5, 1895.
–––. “Nellie Bly with the Female Suffragists.” World, January 26, 1896.
–––. “Champion of her Sex.” World, February 2, 1896.
–––. “Homeless, Hopeless.” World, February 9, 1896.
–––. “Nellie Bly and Two Woman Contrasts.” World, February 16, 1896.
–––. “Nellie Bly as an Elephant Trainer.” World, February 23, 1896.
–––. “Austrians Joyful as They Go into Battle, Feeling Cause Right.” Buffalo Courier, January 16, 1915.
Works by Helen Cusack
Nelson, Nell. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, July 30, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, July 31, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 1, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 2, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 3, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 4, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 5, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 7, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 8, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 9, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 12, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 15, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 17, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 18, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 26, 1888.
–––. “City Slave Girls.” Chicago Times, August 27, 1888.
–––. “Horrors of a Slop Shop.” World, September 30, 1888.
–––. “They Work in an Inferno.” World, October 7, 1888.
–––. “Useful Husbands.” Boston Post, February 11, 1894.
Works by Elizabeth Jordan
Anon. [Elizabeth Jordan]. “In Her New Cottage.�
�� World, June 28, 1890.
–––. “A Mountain Preacher.” World, November 20, 1890.
–––. “Borden Jury Chosen.” World, June 6, 1893.
–––. “Miss Borden Faints.” World, June 7, 1893.
–––. “Lizzie’s Dark Day.” World, June 9, 1893.
–––. “Miss Borden’s Hope.” World, June 10, 1893.
–––. “Is Lizzie Borden Innocent?” World, June 11, 1893.
–––. “Murders Re-Enacted.” World, June 14, 1893.
–––. “You Gave Me Away!” World, June 15, 1893.
–––. “Lizzie Borden Free.” World, June 21, 1893.
Jordan, Elizabeth G. “This Is the Real Lizzie Borden.” World, June 18, 1893.
–––. “Ruth Herrick’s Assignment,” Cosmopolitan (May–October 1894).
–––. Tales of the City Room. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1898.
–––. Three Rousing Cheers. New York: D. Appleton Century Co., 1938.
Works by the Girl Reporter
Girl Reporter. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 15, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 16, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 17, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 18, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 19, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 20, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 21, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 22, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 23, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 24, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 25, 1888.
–––. “Infanticide.” Chicago Times, December 26, 1888.
Works by Victoria Earle Matthews
Matthews, Victoria Earle. “Home Circle.” Washington Bee, April 9, 1887.
–––. “Our New York Letter.” National Leader, January 5, 1889.
–––. “Cedar Hill and Its Master.” Woman’s Era 1, no. 8 (November 1894).
–––. The Value of Race Literature: An Address Delivered at the First Congress of Colored Women of the United States, at Boston, Mass., July 30th, 1895.
–––. “The Negroes of New York.” New York Sun, September 14, 1897.
–––. “Some of the Dangers Confronting Southern Girls in the North,” Hampton Negro Conference Proceedings, 1898.
–––. “The Redemption of Our City—Colored,” Federation 1, no. 8 (July 1902).
–––. “Protecting Colored Girls,” New-York Tribune, March 30, 1905.
Works by Kate Swan McGuirk
McGuirk, Mrs. “Summer Dress of Congressmen.” Los Angeles Herald, August 18, 1892.
–––. “A Persecuted Woman’s Plea.” New York Recorder, September 19, 1892.
–––. “Their Summer Homes.” Salt Lake Herald, June 25, 1893.
–––. “Thrilling Hunt for a Wild Woman.” World, May 31, 1896.
–––. “Mrs. M’Guirk Studies Bryan,” World, August 9, 1896.
McGuirk, Kate. “The Mill Weaver’s Kiss of Death,” World, January 30, 1898.
Swan, Kate. “Kate Swan in the Death Chair.” World, February 16, 1896.
–––. “Kate Swan’s Night on Ellis Island.” World, April 12, 1896.
–––. “Traffic in the Drug That Debases Womanhood.” World, June 21, 1896.
Works by Eleanor Stackhouse
Marks, Nora. “On the Great West Side.” Chicago Tribune, September 5, 1888.
–––. “Nora Visits the Jail.” Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1889.
–––. “All Jolted Alike.” Chicago Tribune, December 13, 1889.
Works by Winifred Black
Columbine. “Confessions of an Actress.” Chicago Tribune, December 16, 1888.
–––. “Her Frank Confession.” Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1889.
Anon. [Winifred Sweet]. “A Peep at Fairyland.” San Francisco Examiner, April 25, 1889.
–––. “Circling the Globe.” San Francisco Examiner, November 20, 1889.
Laurie, Annie. “A City’s Disgrace.” San Francisco Examiner, January 19, 1890.
–––. “Annie Laurie’s Experience.” San Francisco Examiner, July 13, 1890.
–––. “San Francisco’s Shame.” San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 1890.
–––. “Politics as They Seem.” San Francisco Examiner, August 24, 1890.
–––. “Valueless and Poisonous.” San Francisco Examiner, January 25, 1891.
–––. “As Women Never Know Them.” San Francisco Examiner, June 5, 1892.
–––. “As ‘Annie Laurie’ Saw It.” San Francisco Examiner, May 26, 1895.
–––. “Annie Laurie Tells of the Spectral City.” San Francisco Examiner, April 22, 1906.
–––. “Advice to Girls.” Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, July 4, 1919.
Black, Winifred. “Horror of Horrors.” Jewell County Monitor, November 27, 1895.
–––. “Rambles Through My Memories, Part I.” Good Housekeeping 102, no. 1 (January 1936).
–––. “Rambles Through My Memories, Part II.” Good Housekeeping 102, no. 2 (February 1936).
–––. “Rambles Through My Memories, Part III.” Good Housekeeping 102, no. 3 (March 1936).
–––. “Rambles Through My Memories, Part IV.” Good Housekeeping 102, no. 4 (April 1936).
–––. “Rambles Through My Memories, Part V.” Good Housekeeping 102, no. 5 (May 1936).
Works by Eva McDonald Valesh
Gay, Eva. “‘Mong’ Girls Who Toil.” St. Paul Globe, March 25, 1888.
–––. “Song of the Shirt.” St. Paul Globe, April 8, 1888.
–––. “Working in the Wet.” St. Paul Globe, April 15, 1888.
–––. “Eva Gay’s Travels.” St. Paul Globe, April 22, 1888.
–––. “Striking Maidens.” St. Paul Globe, April 29, 1888.
–––. “Eva Gay’s Travels.” St. Paul Globe, May 6, 1888.
–––. “Girls Make Money.” St. Paul Globe, May 13, 1888.
–––. “Workers in Wool.” St. Paul Globe, May 20, 1888.
–––. “Girls Make Cigars.” St. Paul Globe, May 27, 1888.
–––. “Girls Make Boxes.” St. Paul Globe, June 3, 1888.
–––. “The Sewing Girls.” St. Paul Globe, June 10, 1888.
–––. “How Girls Clerk.” St. Paul Globe, June 17, 1888.
–––. “On the Bright Side.” St. Paul Globe, June 24, 1888.
–––. “The Girls Rejoice.” St. Paul Globe, July 1, 1888.
–––. “The White Cross.” St. Paul Globe, July 8, 1888.
–––. “Behind the Scenes.” St. Paul Globe, July 22, 1888.
–––. “Only One Objection.” St. Paul Globe, July 29, 1888.
–––. “Search for Homes.” St. Paul Globe, August 5, 1888.
–––. “Girls in Politics.” St. Paul Globe, August 19, 1888.
–––. “Looking for a Place.” St. Paul Globe, September 9, 1888.
–––. “Yes, You Know Her.” St. Paul Globe, November 4, 1888.
–––. “Didn’t Fit the Bill.” St. Paul Globe, December 12, 1888.
–––. “Makes Girls Blind.” St. Paul Globe, December 25, 1888.
–––. “Life of a Fair One.” St. Paul Globe, January 13, 1889.
–––. “Eva Gay’s Inquiries.” St. Paul Globe, January 20, 1889.
–––. “My Lady’s Chamber.” St. Paul Globe, January 27, 1889.
–––. “A Chapter on Pugs.” St. Paul Globe, February 3, 1889.
–––. “And So She Flunked.” St. Paul Globe, February 24, 1889.
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uicide Club.” New York Journal, September 2, 1897.
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Wells, Ida B., and Miriam DeCosta-Willis. The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Arkansas Race Riot. Chicago: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1920.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., and Trudier Harris. Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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A.S.A. “A Practical Age.” Indianapolis News, July 4, 1885.
Anon. “Smarter Than All of Them.” The Hazel Green Herald, December 9, 1887.
–––. “Dr. Van Hambert’s Female Renovating Pills.” New York Daily Herald, October 26, 1837.
–––. [No Title.] Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, November 3, 1837.
–––. “To Females in Delicate Health.” Public Ledger, February 25, 1841.
–––. “Mysterious Murder at Hoboken.” Public Ledger, August 3, 1841.
–––. “Another Arrest in the Miss Rogers Case.” Public Ledger, September 1, 1841.
–––. “Female’s Friend.” New-York Tribune, September 28, 1841.
–––. “Genuine French Female Monthly Pills.” New-York Tribune, September 30, 1841.
–––. “John Tyler and the New York Herald.” Vicksburg Daily Whig, October 12, 1841.
–––. “The Case of Madame Restell.” New-York Tribune, August 24, 1842.
–––. “The Mary Rogers Mystery Explained.” New-York Tribune, November 18, 1842.
–––. “Lefever, the Seducer.” Buffalo Courier, May 24, 1843.
–––. “Restellism in Boston.” Baltimore Sun, April 3, 1848.
–––. “News Summary.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 26, 1872.