104. Miriam Michelson — The Superwoman with Lori Harrison-Kahan
Before she became a bestselling fiction writer whose work was deemed “catchy as ragtime,” Miriam Michelson made a name for herself as a “girl reporter” covering crime and politics for a major San Francisco paper. Professor Lori Harrison-Kahan, who edited 2019’s The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson, joins us to discuss Michelson and her 1912 feminist utopian novella The Superwoman.
Discussed in this episode:
Wonder Woman (1975 -1979 TV series with Lynda Carter)
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Mirian Michelson
The Madigans by Miriam Michelson
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung
“The Bishop’s Carriage” by Miriam Michelson
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Edna Ferber’s So Big with Caroline Frick