Kate Barrington, a Chicago social worker at the turn of the century, tries to balance her nontraditional role and professional success with the traditional values of the time.
Kate Barrington, a Chicago social worker at the turn of the century, tries to balance her nontraditional role and professional success with the tradit...
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 the Civil War and came of age at the advent of the era of the New Woman. In many ways Peattie embodied this new age of independence for women, writing both fiction and journalism and becoming one of the first Plains women to write editorial columns in a major newspaper that addressed public issues....
Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie is a collection of articles, editorials, and narratives by Elia Peattie written during her tenure at ...
Kate Barrington, a Chicago social worker at the turn of the century, tries to balance her nontraditional role and professional success with the traditional values of the time. This 1914 suffrage novel is based in part of Katherine Ostrander a social worker who lived with the Peattie family. Kate works with a variety of women from professionals to women in a settlement house. The novel reflects the changing role for women and empathizes the influence of women on civic and economic conditions.
Kate Barrington, a Chicago social worker at the turn of the century, tries to balance her nontraditional role and professional success with the tradit...
