The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

Harrison-Kahan introduces us not only to Michelson's strikingly modern life and career but also to the social and political issues of the day, many of which remain timely.--Moment Magazine (01/20/2020) This collection provides important insight into Michelson's work and to a crucial period in American history. It contributes substantially to the literature documenting social change, women's history, and media history.-- (10/28/2019) Despite her activism, reporting, and fiction, Michelson's influence was always more than just her words. It was also her life: The unmarried and independent Michelson provided a role model for others of how a 'new woman' could make her way in a world of men by using her wits and her voice as 'the only woman reporter working in a world of men.'-- (11/05/2019) Miriam's story reminds us that women journalists bring different voices to the forefront - in the stories they cover and the way they cover them. . . . This Women's History Month, here's a toast of gratitude to Aunt Miriam, other women journalists and the suffragists, who earned women the rights and privileges we take for granted today and for those who continue to fight for them. As Abigail Adams implored her husband John Adams during the Continental Congress forming the United States, we "remember the ladies."-- (03/24/2019) I'm grateful to Harrison-Kahan for bringing Miriam Michelson's writings back to life. Michelson's unusual perspective as a Jewish woman writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century gives us new and timely insight into work, politics, and culture in that era.-- (01/22/2019) Miriam Michelson's journalism about women, ethnic minorities, and the West and her prescient speculative fiction make for fascinating reading for anyone interested in American studies, print cultural studies, journalism, or gender studies. Harrison-Kahan has performed a monumental service to these fields by recovering-with such attentiveness and care-the works of this popular, now forgotten Progressive Era frontier feminist author.-- (01/22/2019) Miriam Michelson's voice comes roaring back from the Progressive Era, full of rollicking stories about Amazons, girl thieves, and feminist radicals. Whether she was covering news or writing fiction, Michelson modeled the kind of public engagement our own era desperately needs. Lori Harrison-Kahan has reintroduced a fierce, funny writer we should never have forgotten.-- (01/22/2019) One of the most striking and colorful leaders who fought so long and so hard to secure voting rights for women, Miriam Michelson jumps out of the pages of this new and valuable work by Harrison-Kahan. Thanks at long last to the indefatigable effort by Harrison-Kahan and Miriam's great-great niece, Joan Michelson, the story of Miriam and the roles she played in advancing the suffragette movement-constantly keeping it in the headlines- surges back to life, showing what can be done through courage and commitment.-- (01/22/2019) This is a strong reminder that women worked hard for the right to tell the stories of our nation in their own voice. I am humbled by the women who came before me as I read about their struggles and perseverance. Especially today, as so many women fight for recognition and respect, it is important to look back at the long road we have already traveled and gain strength.-- (01/22/2019) Thanks to Harrison-Kahan for bringing to light in this extraordinary book a body of work that honors the one-hundredth anniversary of women getting the vote, and introduces all of us today to a journalist whose writing helped make suffrage possible. A marquee byline in her time, this collection of Miriam Michelson's work includes her newspaper coverage of a Women's Congress in 1895 and her 1912 novella, Superwoman, which served as source material for 'Wonder Woman.' As an independent, single, professional woman, Michelson was ahead of her time in imagining what women can do.-- (01/22/2019) A new collection, The

Lori Harrison-Kahan is associate professor of the practice of English at Boston College. She is also the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary. Joan Michelson is the great-great niece of Miriam Michelson and an award-winning, creative social impact leader, journalist, coach, and public speaker. She is also executive producer and host of the acclaimed podcast ""Green Connections Radio"" about remarkable women in STEM who are changing the world and what others can learn from them.