Overview
Her voice is heard again. Early 20th century journalist Marguerite Martyn not only interviewed but also sketched the people and events of her time: women marching for the vote, child workers dreaming of a better life, teenagers dancing the Bunny Hug in dimly lit clubs, long skirts and big hats. Criminals and politicians, artists and archbishops, corsets and conventions, romance and rebellion--Martyn covered it all, with sensitivity, wit and whimsy. This selection of Martyn's work illuminates the changing role of women at the turn of the last century: their struggle for voting rights and the heated debate over ""a woman's place"" in society. Sketchbook in hand, Martyn pursued and asked questions of suffragists and their critics, of social reformers and society women. She interviewed or sketched activists Alice Paul, Sylvia Pankhurst, Jane Adams, and Margaret Sanger, as well as Helen Taft and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. She drew and was drawn by Charles Gibson, creator of the ""Gibson Girl"", made fun of the dictates of fashion, solicited advice from 'experts' about marriage and romance, and was informed by one of the current political bosses there was 'absolutely no hope' for women's suffrage. See the Progressive Era through the eyes of this pioneering reporter and illustrator, and how she was changed by what she saw.
Full Product Details
Author: George Garrigues
Publisher: George Garrigues
Imprint: George Garrigues
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.535kg
ISBN: 9780999014219
ISBN 10: 0999014218
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 11 January 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""An entertaining and informative perspective. ... It is easy to discern in reading these articles that Martyn was quite a character herself. ... Her descriptive writing style, which relied heavily on her interview subjects and her surroundings, truly set her work apart from the day's standard news stories. "" -- Frank Absher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch."
An entertaining and informative perspective. ... It is easy to discern in reading these articles that Martyn was quite a character herself. ... Her descriptive writing style, which relied heavily on her interview subjects and her surroundings, truly set her work apart from the day's standard news stories. -- Frank Absher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Author Information
GEORGE GARRIGUES has been a reporter and editor for the Los Angeles Times and the head of journalism or communications programs at University of Pacific, Wayne State University, University of Bridgeport, and Lincoln University of Missouri. He has also worked on the Inglewood Daily News (California), Ontario Daily Report (California), San Francisco Examiner, Coast-Valley Journal (Oregon), Wave Newspapers (Los Angeles), and Bergen County Record (New Jersey).
