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The Plains Humanities Alliance) has gathered a wide sampling of her work in this digital archive, adding context and historical reference to the original works.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.
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