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Chicago, Ill.

abortion series and image of, 78–79

Bly at the Auditorium Hotel, 169, 287

Cronin murder and trail, 105, 105n

impact of Marks’s labor exposés, 65

need for an ambulance corps, 101

Panic of 1893 and, 150, 163

Pullman Company strike and, 164

Women’s Club, 65, 90, 98, 100

Chicago Conservator, 174

Chicago Inter Ocean, 172, 282

Chicago Times, 279

abortion exposé, 1–4, 7, 68, 68–70, 69, 74, 78–82, 105n, 278, 280, 281–83

advertising abortion drugs, 81, 82

Chapin as city editor, 55–56, 68, 99

circulation increase, 60–61, 78

Girl Reporter’s identity, 83, 83–84, 278–83

Nelson’s exposés for, 56–60, 65, 68

reputation of paper and reporters at, 70

scandal and crumbling of, 98–99

West as publisher, 54–55, 60, 68

Chicago Times-Herald, 169, 199

Chicago Tribune, 55, 285

“Confessions of an Actress” in, 90

Marks as stunt reporter at, 61, 99, 99–101, 205, 284–85, 286

Cisneros, Evangelina, 212–13, 244, 245

“City Slave Girls” (Nelson), 56–58, 60, 68

Cleveland, Grover, 141, 164, 165

Cockerill, John, 24–25, 27, 61, 113, 115

Comstock, Anthony, 75–76, 77

Comstock Act, 76–77, 279

Conover, Ted, 275, 277

Cooper, Anna Julia, 132

Cosmopolitan magazine, 95–98, 146–48

Crane, Stephen, 243, 253, 270

Croly, J. C., “Jennie June,” 25

Crusade for Justice (Wells), 297, 297n

Cuba, Cuban rebellion, 197–98, 249–49

Journal reporters and, 244–45, 227

Journal’s Cisneros rescue, 212–13, 244

Czolgosz, Leon, 251

D’Agata, John, 226n

Dana, Charles A., 19, 24, 195

Dare, Dorothy, 197, 198, 199

Davis, Richard Harding, 244, 244n

Debs, Eugene V., 163, 165

Decker, Karl, 213

Depew, Chauncey M., 63

De Wolf, Oscar Coleman, 78, 79

Dickens, Charles, 28, 29, 153, 268

Didion, Joan, 268, 269

Dik: A Dog of Belgium (Banks), 295

Dillard, Annie, 269

Dingley, Nelson, 232

Dollenmayer, Albert, 222, 223

Douglass, Frederick, 172, 214

Ehrenreich, Barbara, 273–74, 275

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 6

Esquire magazine, 268

Everybody’s Magazine, 256

Fall River, Mass., 125–26, 221

Faludi, Susan, 274

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Thompson), 271

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 253

Foley, William, 234

Fortune, Thomas, 136, 263

Front-Page Girls (Lutes), 59n

Fuller, Margaret, 175

Gale, Zona, 190–91n

Gallagher, Jane, 233

Galveston hurricane of 1900, 265–66

Gate City Press, 134

“girl reporter,” 175, 274, 278, 299

Girl Reporter (of the Chicago Times)

abortion exposé, 1–4, 7, 68, 68–70, 69, 77–79, 83, 105n, 278, 283

identity of, 83, 83–84, 278–87

prose style of, 69–70, 279

stylometry analysis of, 285–87, 286n

Glass Castle, The (Walls), 269

Gompers, Samuel, 223, 293

Good Housekeeping, 13

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 253

Greeley, Horace, 19, 254

Greenwood, James, 38

Grozier, Edwin, 167

Gutkind, Lee, 270

Hanna, Mark, 193

Harper’s Bazaar, 247, 292–93

Harrison, Benjamin, 115–16, 126, 141

Hawthorne, Julian, 244

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 6, 7, 244, 253

Hazel Green Herald, 36, 41

Hearst, George, 90

Hearst, William Randolph, 23, 91–92, 94, 95, 177, 178–79, 188

Black and, 94, 177, 195–96, 265–66, 291

contests run by, 211

critics of, 250, 251, 251

Cuban rebellion and, 212–13

hiring girl reporters, 94–95, 205, 224

hiring Harvard Lampoon friends, 91

magazines of, 293

New Journalism influenced by, 271

newspaper empire, 252

political ambitions, 252

as Pulitzer competitor, 7–8, 182, 188, 194–95, 203, 211, 224

Spanish-American War and, 240, 243–44, 249

stealing World staff, 179, 211

Valesh and, 226–27, 246

yellow journalism and, 208

See also New York Journal; San Francisco Examiner

Heaton, Eliza Putnam, 61–62

Hepworth, George, 25–26

“Hills Like White Elephants” (Hemingway), 78n

Home Monthly magazine, 258

Hood, Thomas, 154

“Horrors of a Slop Shop” (Nelson), 64

How the Other Half Lives (Riis), 114, 287

How to Suppress Women’s Writing (Russ), 259

Hurston, Zora Neale, 271

Hutchinson, Anne, 6

Hvistendahl, Mara, 274–75

Illinois Women’s Alliance, 66, 66n

immigration, 4, 21, 27, 40, 174, 207, 216, 221, 226, 229, 250, 266

Heaton’s voyage stunt, 61–62

McGuirk’s Ellis Island stunt, 191–92

In Cold Blood (Capote), 267–68, 270

Indianapolis Journal, 207

investigative journalism, 4, 38, 271

Bly’s exposé of Blackwell Island’s Insane Asylum, 5, 27–37, 39, 40, 92

Girl Reporter’s abortion series and, 1–4, 68, 68–70, 69, 77, 78

girl stunt reporters and, 4, 7, 9, 42–53, 56–58, 64–66, 78, 153, 158–62, 214–16, 255, 274

by men, 9, 256, 270, 276–77

as muckraking, 7, 9, 256, 257, 270

undercover reporting, 56–58, 60, 64, 64–66, 141, 273

See also specific reporters and stories

Iola Register, 36–37

Jack the Ripper story, 67–68, 73, 179

James, Henry, 253–54, 292

Jordan, Elizabeth, 111–13, 115–21, 144, 150, 175n, 182n, 208–11, 247, 285, 292–93

Borden trial and, 142–46, 148n, 256

on Brisbane, 181–82

composite novels and, 292

at Harper’s Bazaar, 247, 292–93

at Harper’s Publishers, 293

fiction by, 118, 146–48, 181, 293

Harrison bribe scandal and, 115–16

in Milwaukee and Chicago, 113, 285

Nelson and, 115, 172

trek into the mountains stunt, 116–17

at the World, 111, 115–21, 141–49, 179–80, 195, 285, 292

Journalist, 84, 133, 137

Kelly, Allen, 93, 206n, 285, 286

Kelly, Florence Finch, 206, 206n

Kim, Suki, 275–77

Kingston, Maxine Hong, 269

Kipling, Rudyard, 155

labor unions, organized labor, 46–47, 49

child labor and, 66, 66n

city and state labor laws and, 66, 66n

coal miner strikes, killings and, 222

garment industry workers, 47

Haymarket Square riots, 47

New Bedford strike, 221, 222, 226–32, 246n

Valesh in a union, 230, 294

Land of Little Rain (Austin), 6

Leslie-Wilde, Mrs. Frank, 166

Lewis, Sinclair, 293

“Life in the Iron Mills” (Davis), 244n

Lifespan of a Fact (book, Broadway play), 226n

Lifting as They Climb (Davis), 215n

Little Rock Sun, 133

Little Women (Alcott), 109

Living Age, The, 141

Lockhart, Caroline, xiii, 166–69, 168, 289, 293

Logansport Reporter (Indiana), 127

London Pall Mall Gazette, 38

London Times, 155

Long-Island Star, 72

Lowell, Robert, 157n

Lutes, Jean Marie, 59n

“Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, The” (Stead), 38, 39

Mail and Express, 25, 137

Marks, Nora (Eleanor Stackhouse), xiii, 61, 99–101, 285, 294

ambulance corps stunt, 101, 104

at the Chicago Tribune, 61, 99, 99–101, 205, 284–85, 286, 294

children in jail exposé, 99–100

Girl Reporter identity and, 286–87

Marx, Eleanor, 45

Marx, Karl, 45

Masterson, Kate, 198

Matthews, Victoria Earle, 7, 137–40, 138, 213–16, 215n, 250, 260, 262, 289

column in the National Leader, 138–39

investigation of Black poverty, 214–15

investigation of fraudulent employment agencies, 215–16

on journalism, 267

lectures by, 214, 261

newspapers written for, 137–38

protecting Black women, 259–61

White Rose Mission, 261, 289

World’s Columbian Exposition, 149–50

McClure’s, 256, 257, 258

McDonald, Eva. See Valesh, Eva

McDougall, Walt, 171

McEwen, Arthur, 122, 122n

McGuirk, Kate Swan, “Mrs. McGuirk” and “Kate Swan,” 125–30, 189–93, 197–98, 200, 203, 274, 290

electric chair stunt, 189–90, 190

Ellis Island article, 191–92

fairy bareback rider stunt, 197, 200

influence on journalism, 271

Lizzie Borden and, 125–30, 142, 146, 148, 189, 285

New Bedford strike and, 229, 235–36, 290

opium sales investigation, 192

presidential election coverage, 193

sidelined by war, 247

as stunt reporter, 148–49, 189–93, 194, 197, 203

at the World, 189–94, 197, 290, 290n

as symbol of the World, 200

as Washington DC reporter, 126, 128

World’s Columbian Exposition, 149

McKinley, William, 193, 204, 232, 242, 247, 251

Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, 134–35, 139

Metcalfe, James, 111, 171, 186

Millard, Frank Bailey, 163

Milwaukee Peck’s Sun, 113

Minneapolis Tribune, 50–51

Moore, William Withers, 125

Mules and Men (Hurston), 271

National American Woman Suffrage Association, 185, 187, 264, 297

National Association of Colored Women, 213

National Leader, 138–39

Nebraska State Journal, 257

Nelson, Nell (Helen Cusack Carvalho), xiii, 55–67, 56, 90, 98,