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“young girls wandered in”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 214.

“I kept walking away from it”: San Francisco Examiner, December 18, 1892, 13.

“I am so sick” and other quotations from this scene: San Francisco Examiner, January 19, 1890, 11.

“She was treated right” and other quotation from this encounter: San Francisco Examiner, January 20, 1890, 1–2.

“all the numerous complaints” and other quotations from this interview: Daily Alta California, January 23, 1890, 4.

“The most precious bit of freight” and other quotations from this scene: San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1890, 1–2.

“the fact that two young” and other quotations from this page: San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1890, 6.

Chapter 7: Under the Gold Dome (1890–1891)

“The American Girl will no longer”: Pittsburg Dispatch, January 26, 1890, 1.

“little newspaper girl”: Bly, Around the World, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.html.

“wonderful things” and “a delicate layer of frost”: Jordan, Cheers, 23.

“A horde of dirty children”: Riis, Other Half, 29–30.

“Miss Virginia Cusack Missing”: Chicago Tribune, March 18, 1890, 1.

“cordial” and “kept very much to herself”: Jordan, Cheers, 87.

“I was out of New York”: Ibid., 29.

“The first story should deal with”: World Sunday Edition Editorial Department to Commander Peary, April 26, 1905, NYPLSP.

“To me the southern mountain assignment”: Jordan, Cheers, 41.

“In the nineteenth century there are”: World, November 20, 1890, 2.

“the comments not only smirched one”: Jordan, Cheers, 128.

“did sensational stories”: Jordan, Tales, 223.

“nothing but nuisances”: Banks, Autobiography, 17.

“Get in, Miss,” and other quotations from this scene: Jordan, Cheers, 131.

“After all, a woman’s place”: Jordan, Tales, 223.

“I beg your pardons” and “drop the damned”: Jordan, Cheers, 38–39.

375 feet tall, 26 stories, and other measurement details: The World, Its History and New Home, pamphlet.

“God grant that this structure”: Ibid.

“Accuracy! Terseness! Accuracy!”: Seitz, Pulitzer, 440.

“a minister’s meeting from ten to twelve”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 211.

“the ‘Nelly Bly’ of San Francisco” and other quotations: San Francisco Examiner, January 5, 1891, 6.

“Face Bleach” and other quotations: San Francisco Examiner, January 25, 1891, 14.

“pretty and coquettish” and “fool”: San Francisco Examiner, December 18, 1892, 13.

Chapter 8: Exercising Judgment (1892)

“families who lived, all of them”: Finch Kelly, Flowing Stream, 230–31.

“It is very hard to have any veneration”: Los Angeles Herald, August 18, 1892, 5.

“Clever Mrs. McGuirk”: St. Paul Globe, July 9, 1892, 8.

“‘Kate,’ as her numerous friends call her”: Boston Globe, July 18, 1892, 8.

“How do you get along” and other quotations from the interview: New York Recorder, September 19, 1892, 1–2.

“masculine looking woman” and “peculiar guttural harshness”: Quoted in Kent, Source Book, 32.

“Her hands and arms”: Boston Post, August 6, 1892, 2.

“a repellent disposition”: Logansport Reporter, August 6, 1892, 1.

“the embodiment of laughter and fun”: Daily Arkansas Gazette, April 30, 1893, 16.

“whose card has taken her”: New York Times, August 29, 1892, 1.

“a magnificent ‘fake’”: Porter, Fall River, 141.

“Mrs. McGuirk, that able”: Vancouver Daily World, November 11, 1892, 7.

“an impartial jury of the state”: Del Carmen, Criminal Procedure, 19.

“This danger would be increased immeasurably” and other quotations from this article: Parkman, “Woman Question,” 316–17.

“indecencies” and “sodomy, incest, rape, seduction”: Quoted in Rodriguez, “Clearing,” 1833.

“Slowly, perhaps, but surely”: Newport Mercury, July 1, 1893, 3.

Chapter 9: A Place to Speak Freely (1892)

lynchers killed 150: Wells-Barnett, Selected Works, 29.

“Princess of the Press”: Journalist, January 26, 1889, 4.

“I am an anomaly to myself”: Wells, Memphis Diary, 78.

“O my God!” and “It may be unwise”: Ibid., 102.

“a town which will neither”: Wells-Barnett, Selected Works, 6.

“thread-bare lie” and “a conclusion”: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 65–66.

“Well, we’ve been a long time”: Ibid., 61.

“They could and did fall in love”: Ibid., 70.

“I felt that I owed it”: Ibid., 69.

“zealous, watchful spirit”: Davis, Lifting, 30.

“No writer of the race is kept busier”: Journalist, January 26, 1889, 4.

“I do not think our women will object”: Washington Bee, April 9, 1887, 3.

“Peace and security are very good things to have”: Matthews, “New York,” January 5, 1889, 2.

Chapter 10: Guilt and Innocence (1892–1893)

“Public Services Rendered by The World” and other quotations: World, May 7, 1893.

“you have to make up your mind”: World, June 4, 1893, 13.

“Many women—faithful daughters and wives”: World, June 11, 1893, 20.

“Christian attributes” and “Angels, my friends say”: Ibid.

“a self-constituted jury” and “They sit”: World, June 18, 1893, 15.

“To-day, as yesterday, you squeezed”: World, June 14, 1893, 8.

“plain to the point of homeliness” and other quotations: World, June 6, 1893, 8.

“I would not be seen doing that, Lizzie” and other quotations from this conversation: World, June 15, 1893, 3.

“The old man is trying to testify” and other quotations from this scene: Jordan, Cheers, 120.

“A woman’s cunning devised,” “It is unjust,” and other quotations from this scene: World, June 21, 1893, 1, 7.

“Miss Borden’s vindication was clear”: Ibid.

“He spent his time devising” and other quotations from this story: Jordan, “Assignment,” 365–72.

“So, Ruth Herrick, that’s the kind”: Jordan, Cheers, 122.

“dream of beauty”: Victoria Earle Matthews to Frederick Douglass, August 3, 1894, LCDP.

“no news is good news”: Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1893, 8.

“The Usual Result”: Evening World, December 6, 1893, 1.

“lead respectable lives”: Evening World, December 6, 1893, 1.

“merry twinkle” and other quotations from this article: World, December 10, 1893, 33.

Chapter 11: Across the Atlantic (1893–1894)

“surrounded with dozens of lovers”: St. Paul Globe, November 25, 1888, 19.

“from getting too lonely”: Banks, Autobiography, 50.

“Stitch! stitch! stitch!”: Hood, Works, 308.

“I wear caps and aprons”: Banks, Campaigns, 3.

“in the city whistles are blowing”: Chicago Tribune, December 17, 1892, 14.

“As Housemaid, Parlourmaid, or House-Parlourmaid”: Banks, Campaigns, 9.

“For myself, I knew little or nothing”: Ibid., 6.

“they have to make quite sure”: Bishop and Lowell, Words, Letter 218.

“there actually breathe a woman”: Pall Mall Gazette, November 22, 1893, 5.

“Now, tell me exactly” and other quotations from this scene: Banks, Autobiography.

“A Young American Lady”: Banks, Campaigns, 98.

“after all my investigations, my faith”: Ibid., 113.

“A YOUNG WOMAN wants a situation”: Ibid., 159.

“I’ll help you, Miss Barnes” and other quotations from the laundry scene: Banks, Campaigns.

“I was beginning to get intensely interested” and other scenes from the laundries in this section: Banks, Campaigns.

Chapter 12: Girl No More (1894–1895)

“Do you think we’re as bad as that?” and other quotations from this scene: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 13,