216. Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the late 19th-century, and her lengthy career as a journalist, fiction writer and literary editor still resonates today. Lori Harrison-Kahan and Jane Carr, editors of a brand new collection of Garver Jordan’s work, join us this week to discuss her courtroom dispatches, her connection to today’s #MeToo movement and how her “invisible labor” shaped the writing of literary giants like Sinclair Lewis and Henry James.
Mentioned in this Episode:
The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s work:
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson
Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf
The Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Mass.
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary by Lori Harrison Kahan
Amish Rumspringa
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
“Dateline’s” Keith Morrison
CNN article by Lori Harrison Kahan on the seeds of the #MeToo movement
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading
Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands by Sharon Harris and Ellen Gruber Garvey
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Zona Gale, as mentioned in Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 69
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 53 on Emma Wolf