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Impertinences : selected writings of Elia Peattie, a journalist in the Gilded Age /
Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie is a collection of articles, editorials, and narratives by Elia Peattie written during her tenure at the Omaha World-Herald from 1888 to 1896, richly illustrated with photographs from the period. Elia (Wilkinson) Peattie (1862-1935) was born during th...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a writer's beginnings, 1862-1896
- Early Omaha. "A word with the women": Defending Omaha
- "Seen with one's eyes open: what is to be seen from an open motor car in Omaha"
- "How they live at Sheely: pen picture of a strange settlement and its queer inhabitants"
- "A sociological soliloquy: some thoughts suggested by the proposed exodus from the Bottoms"
- "Mrs. Peattie in rebuttal: just a word or two in passing concerning the society question"
- "Work of the day nursery: the Creche and what it does for women who must work"
- "The working girls' home: a description of the place on Seventeenth Street, between Douglas and Dodge"
- "With works of charity: St. Joseph's Hospital and the good sisters who do its work"
- "Omaha's black population: the negroes of this city: who they are and where they live"
- "Killing, yet no murder: a day at the stock yards in South Omaha"
- Fact and fiction. "No need of prostitution: Mrs. Peattie refuses to accept the claim that the wanton is a necessity"
- "Leda"
- "Lovely woman and Indians"
- "The triumph of Starved Crow"
- "A word with the women": Francis Schlatter, faith healer
- "A word with the women": For the sake of love
- "The law and the lynchers"
- Community concerns. "Stand up, ye social lions: Mrs. Peattie arraigns the sickly forms that sin from nature's rule"
- "What women are doing": the art of shopping
- "All fuss and feathers: wedding ceremonies which are almost grotesque because of their flummery"
- "The mockery of mourning: thoughts upon outward signs of inward grief prescribed by convention"
- "Want to see a knock-out: Americans seem to feel that way in spite of their civilization"
- "The work of the worker: qualities in evangelist Mills that give him success in soul winning"
- "A Salvation Army funeral"
- "Brains in the school room: some pertinent remarks regarding the needs of the public schools"
- A word with the women. "Ties which do not bind: the matrimonial knot and the ease with which it is broken"
- "How not to treat babies"
- "Where are the children? A lay sermon suggested by Chief Seavey to Colonel Hogeland"
- "The women on the farms: a chapter of advice for them which city women need not read"
- "Barriers against women: they are mostly erected by the women themselves through blind superstition"
- "What women are doing": protection for working women
- "The Woman's Club: it will be distinctively feminine and run to please women"
- "A word with the women": Stromsburg's Woman's Club
- "No distinction as to color: Chicago Woman's Club abolishes the prohibitory rule at its last meeting"
- People and Places. "A Bohemian in Nebraska: A Peep at a Home Which Is a Slice Out of Bohemia"
- "A word with the women": Willa Cather
- "Some pigs and a woman: Mrs. A.M. Edwards and her herd of Poland China Porkers"
- "The lady of the cloister"
- "A woman doctor"
- "A singular institution: the Christian Home of Council Bluffs and its founder"
- "Grand Island and its beets: the county seat of hall and what beet cultivation has done"
- "The State Fish Hatchery: where the rivers of Nebraska get their stock of gamey fish"
- "A word with the women": the hunting mania
- Conclusion: a writing life, 1896-1935.