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Author: Sharon M. Harris ,
Amy Helmes ,
Kim Askew
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9781493092161
ISBN 10: 1493092162
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 10 February 2026
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Aptly titled, Her Life in Ink depicts Elizabeth Garver Jordan, a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalist who epitomized the new 'career woman, ' working first as a journalist for Pulitzer's New York World, for which she covered the infamous Lizzie Borden trial, before moving on to a variety of other roles, such as editor for Bazar magazine and book editor for Harpers. Jordan also wrote fiction and became famous in the mystery genre--America's own Agatha Christie. Often at the expense of her personal life, Jordan worked fourteen-hour days to become a well-known and successful figure in her day. Harris masterfully weaves together the complexities of Jordan's life and highlights why this overlooked author needs her rightful place restored in literary history."" --Rose Neal, author of E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America's Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author (5/15/2025 12:00:00 AM)
""Her Life in Ink captures the multi-faceted career of Elizabeth Garver Jordan, an extraordinary (if often overlooked) literary figure who had an outsized influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture. Thanks to Sharon Harris's meticulous research, Jordan earns her rightful place in literary history as a journalist, editor, fiction writer, activist, and Golden Age mystery novelist. By telling the story of a singular individual, this biography simultaneously illuminates how professional women of Jordan's era forged unconventional lives through kinship networks of mutual care and support."" --Lori Harrison-Kahan, Professor of the Practice of English, Boston College; Co-editor of The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings by Elizabeth Garver Jordan (6/16/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""At last we have the whole story of the charismatic Elizabeth Jordan! Sharon Harris's biography is a compelling read, at times surprising and always fascinating and insightful."" --June Howard, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita of English, American Culture, and Women's & Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (6/12/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""Aptly titled, Her Life in Ink depicts Elizabeth Garver Jordan, a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalist who epitomized the new 'career woman, ' working first as a journalist for Pulitzer's New York World, for which she covered the infamous Lizzie Borden trial, before moving on to a variety of other roles, such as editor for Bazar magazine and book editor for Harpers. Jordan also wrote fiction and became famous in the mystery genre--America's own Agatha Christie. Often at the expense of her personal life, Jordan worked fourteen-hour days to become a well-known and successful figure in her day. Harris masterfully weaves together the complexities of Jordan's life and highlights why this overlooked author needs her rightful place restored in literary history."" --Rose Neal, author of E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America's Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author (5/15/2025 12:00:00 AM)
""At last we have the whole story of the charismatic Elizabeth Jordan! Sharon Harris's biography is a compelling read, at times surprising and always fascinating and insightful."" --June Howard, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita of English, American Culture, and Women's & Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (6/12/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""Aptly titled, Her Life in Ink depicts Elizabeth Garver Jordan, a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalist who epitomized the new 'career woman, ' working first as a journalist for Pulitzer's New York World, for which she covered the infamous Lizzie Borden trial, before moving on to a variety of other roles, such as editor for Bazar magazine and book editor for Harpers. Jordan also wrote fiction and became famous in the mystery genre--America's own Agatha Christie. Often at the expense of her personal life, Jordan worked fourteen-hour days to become a well-known and successful figure in her day. Harris masterfully weaves together the complexities of Jordan's life and highlights why this overlooked author needs her rightful place restored in literary history."" --Rose Neal, author of E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America's Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author (5/15/2025 12:00:00 AM)
Author Information
Sharon M. Harris is professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919, Rebecca Harding Davis: A Life Among Writers, and a coeditor of A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi. She lives in Washington State.
