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: 

Superman

Christopher Reeve as Superman  

Lois Lane

Wonder Woman (1975 -1979 TV series with Lynda Carter) 

The Superwoman and Other Writings by Mirian Michelson

Virginia City, Nevada

Mark Twain

The Madigans by Miriam Michelson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The New Woman

Nellie Bly

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung

H.L. Mencken

“The Bishop’s Carriage” by Miriam Michelson 

Edith Wharton 

Henry James

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 

The Smart Set

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Edna Ferber’s So Big with Caroline Frick 

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