Elia W. Peattie: Collecting the work of a 19th Century Author
March 15, 2015 7:20 AM   Subscribe

The Nonpareil of Council Bluffs has a new editor who says uncomplimentary and fairly humorous things about the 'new woman' — which show him to be an 'old man.’
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was an incredibly prolific journalist, novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer during a time of great American change. Dr. Susanne George Bloomfield of the University of Nebraska (supported by the The Plains Humanities Alliance) has gathered a wide sampling of her work in this digital archive, adding context and historical reference to the original works.

Peattie worked at the Chicago Tribune, and then the Omaha World-Herald - where she wrote editorials, had her own daily column (A Word to the Women), and wrote articles for all sections of the paper. This collection provides a view into Peattie’s Progressive outlook in what was a city on the edge of an American frontier.

She was particularly well known for her short stories of the West (background) first published in national magazines, and later reprinted into books, but she wrote travelogues and children’s books, poems and columns, reviews and essays, too.
posted by julen (2 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
I'm having a hard time resisting the urge to copy & paste all the quotes from her work.
You think, do you madam, that a wrangle over 'rights' is unseemly? Why, then, so was the American Revolution unseemly; so was the wrangle which secured the manumission of slaves, so has been every struggle for liberty! Unseemly! All vital things are unseemly. To be perfectly respectable one needs have done nothing at all. A sawdust doll, dear madam, is always seemly.
Great post — thank you, julen!
posted by Lexica at 7:57 AM on March 15, 2015 [1 favorite]


Thank you for this excellent post!
posted by jokeefe at 8:01 PM on March 15, 2015


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