Her Life in Ink

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.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Life in MilwaukeeChapter 2: The PlanChapter 3: A New Kind of EducationChapter 4: Making Her WayChapter 5: True StoriesChapter 6: Sections EditorChapter 7: Covering the Lizzie Borden TrialChapter 8: Assistant EditorChapter 9: TransitioningChapter 10: Harper’s BazarChapter 11: Fashioning LiteratureChapter 12: Editor and AuthorChapter 13: RetreatsChapter 14: The Whole Darn FamilyChapter 15: The Progressive EraChapter 16: Harper’s PublishingChapter 17: A Second Composite NovelChapter 18: New DirectionsChapter 19: Goldwyn PicturesChapter 20: Mystery WritingChapter 21: The Roaring TwentiesChapter 22: America’s Theater CriticChapter 23: Rebuilding from LossChapter 24: New DirectionsChapter 25: Writing Against the OddsChapter 26: Three Rousing Cheers!Chapter 27: PassagesChapter 28: The Final YearsBibliographyIndex

"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 Harper's 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."