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Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl"

Elizabeth L. Banks

Read by TriciaG · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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I Am Committed to the Charge of the Angels (11:01)
The "Angels" and What They Were Like (22:53)
I Go to Peru as a "Girl-Diplomat" (26:51)
Into the Wide, Wide World of Journalism (25:49)
In London Town (20:49)
When I Began to Starve in London (24:28)
I Become a Maidservant (22:19)
When I Found Myself a "Heroine" (26:14)
Why I Did Not Become a Salvation Army "Lassie" (13:52)
A Deal in Ancestors (27:44)
A Midnight Holocaust (15:19)
On the Bringing Out of a First Book (6:20)
An American Millionaire Hunts Me Up (20:43)
The Departure of Dinah (13:53)
Economy for Two (26:05)
An Encounter with Mrs. Lynn Linton (20:10)
Home Again, and in "The Way of Life" (25:30)
Some Questions of Journalistic Ethics (22:57)
"--And Have Not Charity" (7:24)
"In the Name of Christ" (22:21)
A Little Joyousness and Some Tragedy (19:51)
The Love-Story of Miss Johnstone, Journalist (23:15)
The Story of a "Failure" (20:34)
Some Proposals and Some Love-Letters (17:24)
An "Editorial Bouquet" (21:11)
On Interviewing and Some Interviews (23:09)
About My Enemies, and the Meanest Man I Ever Met (17:39)
Looking Backward--and Forward (19:20)