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Book Review


Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930. By Jean Marie Lutes. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv, 226 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4235-3.)
In her book, Front Page Girls, Jean Marie Lutes attempts to cover a lot of territory. Even though the period she studies is limited, she takes on real journalists Nellie Bly, Ida B. Wells, and others; fictional journalists including Henrietta Stackpole; and real-life authors (and former journalists) Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, and Djuna Barnes. As a result, the book is a hodge-podge that strains at times to tie together all those disparate subjects to follow a common theme. . . .
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