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“Their only hope is”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 17, 1894, 2.

“While it occupies her”: St. Paul Globe, September 11, 1894, 5.

“Life is growing worse every day”: Evening World, February 5, 1895, 4.

“Why couldn’t I write for a newspaper”: Quoted in Clayton, Cowboy Girl, 33–34.

“This Page for the Lords of Creation” and other quotations from this issue: Boston Post, February 11, 1894.

“Have I not been drinking moxie” and other quotations from this article: Boston Post, June 2, 1895, 9, 12.

“Is ‘Nellie Bly’ Married?”: Indianapolis Journal, April 7, 1895, 2.

“The marriage of Nellie Bly”: San Francisco Examiner, April 15, 1895, 6.

“And thus is refuted”: Weekly Pioneer-Times, April 18, 1895, 4.

“He is very old”: Buffalo Morning Express, April 16, 1895, 4.

“everybody knew her but she had very few familiars”: McDougall, Life, 187.

“Nellie was deeply attached”: Ibid., 189.

“It is a genuine surprise”: Boston Post, June 21, 1895, 4.

“a small man with muscles of iron” and “the most energetic”: McDougall, Life, 199.

“Her reward was great”: Jordan, Cheers, 87.

“You have dealt with”: Wells-Barnett, Selected Works, 15.

“It is like being born”: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 135.

“attempted robbery” and other quotations from this source: Wells-Barnett, Selected Works.

“octaroon evangel”: New York Times, April 29, 1894, 1.

“retired to what I thought was the privacy of a home”: Ibid., 239.

“Next to a great, big bank account”: Boston Post, February 11, 1894, 19.

“In the craft I had chosen”: Webb, Diary, 252.

“She deals only with ballot boxes”: San Francisco Examiner, May 26, 1895, 13.

“There are certain moments in life”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 217.

Chapter 13: Full Speed Ahead (1895–1896)

“I had secured very remunerative”: Abbot, Watching, 137.

“It seemed to some of us”: Ibid., 147.

“Can I help you” and other quotations from this scene: Interview with Miss Elizabeth Jordan at her home, April 13, 1938, Brisbane 2001 Addition, Box 1, Folder “J” Miscellaneous, SULBF.

“by turns fire and ice”: Jordan, Cheers, 136.

“I have sometimes wondered”: Ibid., 128.

“Officer, there is a man in that cab” and “Oh, that is all”: Sun, November 10, 1895, 4.

“If I have done anything wrong” and other quotations from this scene: Sun, November 11, 1895, 3.

“Learn to think only”: Nellie Bly to Mary Jane Cochrane, October 12, 1915, Folder Bly, Nellie/Cochrane, Mary Jane, 1914–1915, SULBF.

“frightful” and “I really believe women”: World, January 26, 1896, 4.

“I adore the little peculiarities of people”: World, February 2, 1896, 10.

“Do you pray?” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.

“You know every time” and “Man and woman”: World, February 16, 1896, 32.

“She fell from the see-saw”: World, February 23, 1896, 17.

“freaks” and “froth” and “your old energy”: G.W. Hosmer to Norris, May 29, 1896 [with enclosure of Pulitzer to Brisbane], Box 1, Folder 1896, May–June, LCPP.

“Sorry we did not have that”: Box 1, Folder 1886–1897, SULBA.

“I am not sorry that I endured”: World, February 16, 1896, 17.

“You know perfectly well”: Box 1, Folder 1886–1897, SULBA.

“an interesting condition” and “disgusting and sickening”: Quoted in Morris, Pulitzer, 380.

“The light from Liberty’s torch”: World, April 12, 1896, 29.

“Give me two ounces” and the rest of the quotations about the scene: World, June 21, 1896, 17.

“Byronic fashion” and other quotations from this article: World, August 9, 1896, 30.

“Semaphore” and other examples of code: Cable Code Book used by H. A. Jenks, New York, ca. 1906, Box 40, CUWP.

“I hope you are satisfied”: Pulitzer to Norris, June 15, 1896, Box 1, Folder 1896, CUPP.

“There was never before anywhere”: Sun, October 21, 1896, 6.

“I used to go to my hotel”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 218.

“guttural snarl” and other quotations from this article: San Francisco Examiner, June 5, 1892, 13.

“fairy bareback rider”: World, March 8, 1896.

“These women are fiercer than the men”: New York Journal, March 14, 1896, 2.

“Shakespearean ballet” and “a chorus of women reporters”: Times, March 28, 1897, 5.

“the furious exploitation of crime” and other quotations from this article: Chicago Times-Herald, quoted in Sun, March 27, 1896, 6.

“If any girl who reads this is ever tempted”: Willard, Occupations, 290.

“intruding their individuality on the public” and other quotations from this article: Times-Democrat, April 12, 1896, 22–23.

Chapter 14: A Smear of Yellow (1896–1897)

“And behold a Transformation!” Banks, Autobiography, 297.

“Oh, no; I am not going” and other quotations from this interview: New York Journal, October 14, 1896, 12.

“financial catastrophe”: Banks, Autobiography, 195.

“sunlight, sparkling on a dome of gold”: Ibid., 197.

“the most difficult, the most enterprising”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 340.

“Hundreds of them passed”: Ross, Ladies, 24.

“You’ll have to write”: Finch Kelly, Flowing Stream, 138.

“clamour of the stunting sisterhood” and “its daring and unsavory exploits”: Ibid., 458–59.

“My book will not go because”: Elizabeth Banks to Wm. Morris Colles, December 11, 1901, UTBP.

“But one thing troubles me”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 335.

“Gotham’s Great Epidemic” and other quotations from this article: Indianapolis Journal, February 4, 1897, 2.

“that prurient desire of knowing”: “prurient, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 31, 2020. Web.

“The smartest ancient rhetorical theorists”: Beard, Women, 41.

“In many institutions where the World and Journal” and “pernicious and unclean newspapers”: Sun, March 10, 1897, 1.

“the respect and confidence of the public” and “the notion that we are”: Pulitzer to Norris, August 21, 1897, Box 1, Folder 1897 July, LCPP.

“the wilds of Virginia” and “‘Men! . . . why, if I sent a man”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 336.

“delicate, feminine appearance” and other quotations from this scene: Banks, Autobiography, 209–11.

“breaking down under a very great”: Quoted in Banks, Remaking, xxxiii.

“I had forgotten that you were interested” and other quotations from this scene: Banks, Autobiography, 225.

“When the educated man of special training”: New York Journal, July 4, 1897, 13.

“You, men, take care of the situation”: Prados-Torreira, Mambisas, 139.

“shy, dark-eyed Cuban maiden”: New York Journal, October 17, 1897, 45.

“Mrs. Victoria Earle Matthews who was once a slave” and other quotations from this page: New York Journal, August 15, 1897, 12.

“none are more popular”: Penn, Afro-American Press, 375.

“America’s great epic”: Matthews, “Cedar Hill,” 2–4.

“The Value of Race Literature” and quotations from the speech: Matthews, Value.

“Yes I had seen The Hon.”: Victoria Earle Matthews to Frederick Douglass, August 3, 1894, LCDP.

“torn and disordered”: Quoted in Washington, Papers, 362.

“motherhood and womanhood” and “the same standards of morality”: