| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist. By Gary Scharnhorst. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xvi, 306 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-0874-5.)

Few today have heard of Kate Field, one of the best-known personalities of the nineteenth century. Author, playwright, lecturer, actress, editor, writer, and publicist, Field knew almost everyone who was notable after the Civil War on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean: Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, George Eliot, Mark Twain, and Grover Cleveland, among others. Outspoken, witty, and charming, Field became one of the first celebrity journalists, receiving equal billing on the lecture circuit with Twain, who was contemptuous of her style, and the famed speaker Henry Ward Beecher. Field interviewed scores of prominent people for her newspaper columns, magazine articles, and books and, in turn, gave multitudinous interviews herself.

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