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      • "America No Place for Babies," says Lady Hercules
      • French Heels and Wooden Blocks
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      • Andrew Carnegie On Prosperity, Tax, and Poverty
      • What is Society? Toto Papin Explains
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Introducing Marguerite Martyn

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Marguerite Martyn

(1880-1948) was an art school graduate who worked as a reporter and illustrator for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1905 to 1941. She covered national political conventions and interviewed people like actresses Lillian Russell, Mary Garden, and Ethel Barrymore, the poet Sara Teasdale, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, union activist Mother Jones and ’round-the-world traveler Nelly Bly.  An early "celebrity journalist," she was so popular with her readers that her name was placed right up in the headlines.
No topic was immune from Martyn's insightful and sometimes whimsical pen.
She wrote and illustrated articles about women's suffrage, World War I, fashion, food, work, class differences, and more. Our book offer a selection of Martyn's work during the Progressive Era, from 1905 to 1923, a time of great political, social and cultural upheaval.

​ Experience a glimpse of history through the eyes of this intrepid reporter. 
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Print or E-book

Our first book follows Martyn while she chronicles — in words and sketches — the  suffragist movement, political conventions, and the lives of noteworthy women and men during the tumultuous years of America's Progressive Era.

Here you'll find women marching for the vote, child workers dreaming of a better life, teenagers dancing the Bunny Hug in dimly lit clubs, long skirts and big hats.

​Criminals and politicians, artists and archbishops, corsets and conventions, romance and rebellion — Martyn covered them all, with sensitivity, wit and whimsy. 


 Frank Absher writes for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"An entertaining and informative
perspective.... Martyn was an excellent writer, but her features gave her a chance to display her secret weapon: an ability to illustrate her subjects in pen and ink....
It is easy to discern in reading these articles that Martyn was quite a character herself.... Her descriptive writing style, which relied heavily on her interview subjects and her surroundings, truly set her work apart from the day's standard news stories." 

Buy Marguerite Martyn: America's Forgotten Journalist at:  

Left Bank Books
AMAZON.COM
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A Reporter With a Sketchpad

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List of Sketches of Notable People by Marguerite Martyn (Wikipedia)

Writing by Martyn:

​Beatrice Farnham:
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"The More I See Of This Boasted Civilization,  The More I Like--- Indians," 

"America Is No Place For Babies" Says The Lady Hercules

​French Heels and Wooden Blocks  

Nellie Bly Chases Business Prospects Out to a Brewery

Marguerite Martyn Interviews Andrew Carnegie:  "Prosperity, Income Tax, and the Blessings of Poverty"

Martyn  Interviews Theodore Papin: "What Is Society?"

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