From WSJbooks: Female correspondents reported from the frontlines—and shaped the American public’s understanding of the Great War. Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews “An Unladylike Profession.”
When bestselling mystery novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart, in 1914, asked the editor of the Saturday Evening Post to send her to Europe to cover the war that had just broken out there, he at first refused. “Frankly,” he replied by telegram, “I do not care to take the responsibility of sending anyone over there except old maids, widows and our really tough boys.”
Rinehart, a middle-aged wife and mother, knew nothing about the military, and she had never worked as a journalist, much less covered a war. Yet she managed to persuade...
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