Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business /
Karen Roggenkamp.
- 1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sympathy and the American newspaper woman -- Representing institutions: asylums and prisons in American periodicals -- Scenes of sympathy in Margaret Fuller's New-York Tribune reportage -- Entering unceremoniously: Fanny Fern, sympathy, and tales of confinement -- Making a spectacle of herself: Nellie Bly, stunt reporting, and marketed sympathy -- Sympathy and sensation: Elizabeth Jordan, Lizzie Borden, and the female reporter in the late nineteenth-century -- Afterword.
9781631012327 (e-book)
Women journalists--History--United States--19th century. Women in journalism--History--United States--19th century. Journalism--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century. Newspaper publishing--History--United States--19th century. Press--History--United States--19th century.