Marguerite Martyn Book Series
Explore the world of America's forgotten journalist
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(and some old-timey music!)
(and some old-timey music!)
Our first book follows Martyn while she chronicles, in words and sketches, the suffragist movement, two political conventions, and the lives of noteworthy women and men during the tumultuous years of America's Progressive Era.
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Clair Kenamore was a reporter with a camera on the Western Front; Marguerite Martyn stayed home with an interviewer’s pen and artist’s sketchbook. They were husband and wife. World War I forced them apart.
He reported what he saw. Doughboy Sammy Goldberg coming back from the trenches with seventeen German prisoners. Blond French girls flirting in German with boisterous American troops. Men dying. Her imagination soared. Befuddled diners wondering how to get around wartime food regulations. A “lady colonel” standing on a soapbox. Negligée boudoir gowns. George Garrigues has woven together the writing and illustrations of these wartime journalists to create a unique and memorable perspective on World War I at home and abroad. It was in the newspapers, a hundred years ago. Read it and see it for the first time in a century. |
What was it like to strike out on your own as a young woman in the Big City in 1914?
Meet Gladness. She's just left high school, and she wants to find a job and create a life for herself in St. Louis. Along the way, she meets some interesting characters: a suitor named Reggie Von Stripling and his imperious mother, a department store manager who struts around fluffing out his frock coat like a black-and-white turkey cock, and more... This tale of a young working woman during a time before women could vote features Martyn's detailed illustrations AND a surprising coda by Lisa Gale Garrigues that invites you to see the story through new eyes. |
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