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Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the late 19th-century, and her lengthy career as a journalist, fiction writer and literary editor still resonates today. Lori Harrison-Kahan and Jane Carr, editors of a brand new collection of Garver Jordan’s work, join us this week to discuss her courtroom dispatches, her connection to today’s #MeToo movement and how her “invisible labor” shaped the writing of literary giants like Sinclair Lewis and Henry James. 

Mentioned in this Episode: 

The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan

Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s work:

The Sturdy Oak

The Whole Family 

The Lady of Pentlands

Three Rousing Cheers

“Ruth Herrick’s Assignment”

“The Cry of the Pack”

The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf

The New York World

Nellie Bly

The Lizzie Borden case

The Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Mass.

Harper’s Bazaar

Harper and Brothers

The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary by Lori Harrison Kahan

Amish Rumspringa

“Baby McKee”

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“Dateline’s”

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