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Kate Field
the many lives of a nineteenth-century American journalist
By Scharnhorst, Gary
- ISBN
- 978-0-81560-874-5
- Publisher
- New York : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2008
Kate Field, a journalist and celebrity in 19th-century America, has disappeared from our collective memory. Scharnhorst (English, Univ. of New Mexico; Bret Harte) draws on a wide range of primary documents to reconstruct her life, filling in a missing piece of cultural history. Field grew up in a theatrical family; her father was occasionally a journalist and newspaper owner, and her first writings were published in the family newspaper. Throughout her life, she freelanced for a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
