Chicago, Ill.
abortion series and image of, 78–79
Bly at the Auditorium Hotel, 169, 287
Cronin murder and trail, 105, 105n
impact of Marks’s labor exposés, 65
need for an ambulance corps, 101
Panic of 1893 and, 150, 163
Pullman Company strike and, 164
Women’s Club, 65, 90, 98, 100
Chicago Conservator, 174
Chicago Inter Ocean, 172, 282
Chicago Times, 279
abortion exposé, 1–4, 7, 68, 68–70, 69, 74, 78–82, 105n, 278, 280, 281–83
advertising abortion drugs, 81, 82
Chapin as city editor, 55–56, 68, 99
circulation increase, 60–61, 78
Girl Reporter’s identity, 83, 83–84, 278–83
Nelson’s exposés for, 56–60, 65, 68
reputation of paper and reporters at, 70
scandal and crumbling of, 98–99
West as publisher, 54–55, 60, 68
Chicago Times-Herald, 169, 199
Chicago Tribune, 55, 285
“Confessions of an Actress” in, 90
Marks as stunt reporter at, 61, 99, 99–101, 205, 284–85, 286
Cisneros, Evangelina, 212–13, 244, 245
“City Slave Girls” (Nelson), 56–58, 60, 68
Cleveland, Grover, 141, 164, 165
Cockerill, John, 24–25, 27, 61, 113, 115
Comstock, Anthony, 75–76, 77
Comstock Act, 76–77, 279
Conover, Ted, 275, 277
Cooper, Anna Julia, 132
Cosmopolitan magazine, 95–98, 146–48
Crane, Stephen, 243, 253, 270
Croly, J. C., “Jennie June,” 25
Crusade for Justice (Wells), 297, 297n
Cuba, Cuban rebellion, 197–98, 249–49
Journal reporters and, 244–45, 227
Journal’s Cisneros rescue, 212–13, 244
Czolgosz, Leon, 251
D’Agata, John, 226n
Dana, Charles A., 19, 24, 195
Dare, Dorothy, 197, 198, 199
Davis, Richard Harding, 244, 244n
Debs, Eugene V., 163, 165
Decker, Karl, 213
Depew, Chauncey M., 63
De Wolf, Oscar Coleman, 78, 79
Dickens, Charles, 28, 29, 153, 268
Didion, Joan, 268, 269
Dik: A Dog of Belgium (Banks), 295
Dillard, Annie, 269
Dingley, Nelson, 232
Dollenmayer, Albert, 222, 223
Douglass, Frederick, 172, 214
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 273–74, 275
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 6
Esquire magazine, 268
Everybody’s Magazine, 256
Fall River, Mass., 125–26, 221
Faludi, Susan, 274
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Thompson), 271
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 253
Foley, William, 234
Fortune, Thomas, 136, 263
Front-Page Girls (Lutes), 59n
Fuller, Margaret, 175
Gale, Zona, 190–91n
Gallagher, Jane, 233
Galveston hurricane of 1900, 265–66
Gate City Press, 134
“girl reporter,” 175, 274, 278, 299
Girl Reporter (of the Chicago Times)
abortion exposé, 1–4, 7, 68, 68–70, 69, 77–79, 83, 105n, 278, 283
identity of, 83, 83–84, 278–87
prose style of, 69–70, 279
stylometry analysis of, 285–87, 286n
Glass Castle, The (Walls), 269
Gompers, Samuel, 223, 293
Good Housekeeping, 13
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 253
Greeley, Horace, 19, 254
Greenwood, James, 38
Grozier, Edwin, 167
Gutkind, Lee, 270
Hanna, Mark, 193
Harper’s Bazaar, 247, 292–93
Harrison, Benjamin, 115–16, 126, 141
Hawthorne, Julian, 244
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 6, 7, 244, 253
Hazel Green Herald, 36, 41
Hearst, George, 90
Hearst, William Randolph, 23, 91–92, 94, 95, 177, 178–79, 188
Black and, 94, 177, 195–96, 265–66, 291
contests run by, 211
critics of, 250, 251, 251
Cuban rebellion and, 212–13
hiring girl reporters, 94–95, 205, 224
hiring Harvard Lampoon friends, 91
magazines of, 293
New Journalism influenced by, 271
newspaper empire, 252
political ambitions, 252
as Pulitzer competitor, 7–8, 182, 188, 194–95, 203, 211, 224
Spanish-American War and, 240, 243–44, 249
stealing World staff, 179, 211
Valesh and, 226–27, 246
yellow journalism and, 208
See also New York Journal; San Francisco Examiner
Heaton, Eliza Putnam, 61–62
Hepworth, George, 25–26
“Hills Like White Elephants” (Hemingway), 78n
Home Monthly magazine, 258
Hood, Thomas, 154
“Horrors of a Slop Shop” (Nelson), 64
How the Other Half Lives (Riis), 114, 287
How to Suppress Women’s Writing (Russ), 259
Hurston, Zora Neale, 271
Hutchinson, Anne, 6
Hvistendahl, Mara, 274–75
Illinois Women’s Alliance, 66, 66n
immigration, 4, 21, 27, 40, 174, 207, 216, 221, 226, 229, 250, 266
Heaton’s voyage stunt, 61–62
McGuirk’s Ellis Island stunt, 191–92
In Cold Blood (Capote), 267–68, 270
Indianapolis Journal, 207
investigative journalism, 4, 38, 271
Bly’s exposé of Blackwell Island’s Insane Asylum, 5, 27–37, 39, 40, 92
Girl Reporter’s abortion series and, 1–4, 68, 68–70, 69, 77, 78
girl stunt reporters and, 4, 7, 9, 42–53, 56–58, 64–66, 78, 153, 158–62, 214–16, 255, 274
by men, 9, 256, 270, 276–77
as muckraking, 7, 9, 256, 257, 270
undercover reporting, 56–58, 60, 64, 64–66, 141, 273
See also specific reporters and stories
Iola Register, 36–37
Jack the Ripper story, 67–68, 73, 179
James, Henry, 253–54, 292
Jordan, Elizabeth, 111–13, 115–21, 144, 150, 175n, 182n, 208–11, 247, 285, 292–93
Borden trial and, 142–46, 148n, 256
on Brisbane, 181–82
composite novels and, 292
at Harper’s Bazaar, 247, 292–93
at Harper’s Publishers, 293
fiction by, 118, 146–48, 181, 293
Harrison bribe scandal and, 115–16
in Milwaukee and Chicago, 113, 285
Nelson and, 115, 172
trek into the mountains stunt, 116–17
at the World, 111, 115–21, 141–49, 179–80, 195, 285, 292
Journalist, 84, 133, 137
Kelly, Allen, 93, 206n, 285, 286
Kelly, Florence Finch, 206, 206n
Kim, Suki, 275–77
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 269
Kipling, Rudyard, 155
labor unions, organized labor, 46–47, 49
child labor and, 66, 66n
city and state labor laws and, 66, 66n
coal miner strikes, killings and, 222
garment industry workers, 47
Haymarket Square riots, 47
New Bedford strike, 221, 222, 226–32, 246n
Valesh in a union, 230, 294
Land of Little Rain (Austin), 6
Leslie-Wilde, Mrs. Frank, 166
Lewis, Sinclair, 293
“Life in the Iron Mills” (Davis), 244n
Lifespan of a Fact (book, Broadway play), 226n
Lifting as They Climb (Davis), 215n
Little Rock Sun, 133
Little Women (Alcott), 109
Living Age, The, 141
Lockhart, Caroline, xiii, 166–69, 168, 289, 293
Logansport Reporter (Indiana), 127
London Pall Mall Gazette, 38
London Times, 155
Long-Island Star, 72
Lowell, Robert, 157n
Lutes, Jean Marie, 59n
“Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, The” (Stead), 38, 39
Mail and Express, 25, 137
Marks, Nora (Eleanor Stackhouse), xiii, 61, 99–101, 285, 294
ambulance corps stunt, 101, 104
at the Chicago Tribune, 61, 99, 99–101, 205, 284–85, 286, 294
children in jail exposé, 99–100
Girl Reporter identity and, 286–87
Marx, Eleanor, 45
Marx, Karl, 45
Masterson, Kate, 198
Matthews, Victoria Earle, 7, 137–40, 138, 213–16, 215n, 250, 260, 262, 289
column in the National Leader, 138–39
investigation of Black poverty, 214–15
investigation of fraudulent employment agencies, 215–16
on journalism, 267
lectures by, 214, 261
newspapers written for, 137–38
protecting Black women, 259–61
White Rose Mission, 261, 289
World’s Columbian Exposition, 149–50
McClure’s, 256, 257, 258
McDonald, Eva. See Valesh, Eva
McDougall, Walt, 171
McEwen, Arthur, 122, 122n
McGuirk, Kate Swan, “Mrs. McGuirk” and “Kate Swan,” 125–30, 189–93, 197–98, 200, 203, 274, 290
electric chair stunt, 189–90, 190
Ellis Island article, 191–92
fairy bareback rider stunt, 197, 200
influence on journalism, 271
Lizzie Borden and, 125–30, 142, 146, 148, 189, 285
New Bedford strike and, 229, 235–36, 290
opium sales investigation, 192
presidential election coverage, 193
sidelined by war, 247
as stunt reporter, 148–49, 189–93, 194, 197, 203
at the World, 189–94, 197, 290, 290n
as symbol of the World, 200
as Washington DC reporter, 126, 128
World’s Columbian Exposition, 149
McKinley, William, 193, 204, 232, 242, 247, 251
Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, 134–35, 139
Metcalfe, James, 111, 171, 186
Millard, Frank Bailey, 163
Milwaukee Peck’s Sun, 113
Minneapolis Tribune, 50–51
Moore, William Withers, 125
Mules and Men (Hurston), 271
National American Woman Suffrage Association, 185, 187, 264, 297
National Association of Colored Women, 213
National Leader, 138–39
Nebraska State Journal, 257
Nelson, Nell (Helen Cusack Carvalho), xiii, 55–67, 56, 90, 98,
