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behavior: divorce testimony in M. J. Ford vs. J. J. Ford, 1879, Armstrong County Courthouse.

“Wanted—manager for art publications” and other notices: Pittsburg Dispatch Want Ads, January 11–17, 1885.

“If the writer of the communication”: Pittsburg Dispatch, January 17, 1888, 4.

“a strain of sound”: San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1890, 1.

“Girls are just as smart”: Pittsburg Dispatch, January 25, 1885, 1.

“attracted considerable attention here”: Pittsburg Dispatch, March 1, 1885, 10.

“sparkling, breezy, good-natured tone”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 25, 1883, 8.

“chambermaid’s delight”: James Palmer, “Albert Pulitzer: Notes on the Lesser-Known Pulitzer Brother,” The Pulitzer Prizes, https://www.pulitzer.org/page/albert-pulitzer-notes-lesser-known-pulitzer-brother.

“not only large but truly democratic”: World, May 11, 1883, 4.

between 1870 and 1900, 12 million immigrants: Arnesen, Encyclopedia, 523.

jumping from thirty thousand in 1883: Journalist, September 10, 1887, 10.

“which appeals to the people”: Quoted in Procter, Hearst, 41.

“Look out for me”: Quoted in Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 75.

“Editor and popular author wants”: Journalist, September 17, 1887, 8.

“I think if they have the ability” and the rest of this conversation: Pittsburg Dispatch, August 21, 1887, 9.

“get a bachelor and form a syndicate” and the rest of this conversation: Ibid.

“I cannot write the utter rubbish”: Jane Cunningham Croly “Jennie June” to Pulitzer, January 7, 1884, Box 1, CUWP.

“Their dress, constitution and habits” and the rest of this conversation: Pittsburg Dispatch, August 21, 1887, 9.

“the public demands a different kind”: Ibid.

“Dr. Hepworth, I want a position” and the rest of this conversation: Ibid.

“the empty glory and poor pay”: Ibid.

“Woman understands women”: Ibid.

“No editor would like”: Ibid.

“I don’t know what I can do until I try”: Bly, “Among the Mad,” 20.

Chapter 2: Opportunity in Disguise (1887)

“naked ugliness and horror”: Dickens, American Notes, 37.

“assumed the look”: World, October 9, 1887, 25.

“I can see it in your face” and the rest of this conversation: Ibid.

“Who Is This Insane Girl?”: Sun, September 25, 1887, 1.

“Poor child” and the rest of this scene: World, October 9, 1887, 26.

“A good woman can do without blemish”: San Francisco Examiner, December 18, 1892, 13.

“hysterical mania”: Sun, September 25, 1887, 1.

“the sight of licentious paintings” and following list of descriptions: Hayes, Physiology, 252–65.

“As a general rule, all women are hysterical”: Quoted in Grossman, Spectacle, 92.

“dissolve the paroxysm”: Hayes, Physiology, 256.

“nervous debility” and most of the rest of the asylum account: Bly, Ten Days, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html.

“I can’t see”: World, October 17, 1887.

“Nellie Bly’s Experience in the Blackwell’s Insane Asylum”: World, October 16, 1887.

“Can Doctors Tell Insanity?”: Sun, October 14, 1887, 11.

“New York wild with excitement”: Salt Lake Herald, December 9, 1887, 4.

“Smarter Than All of Them”: Hazel Green Herald, December 9, 1887, 5.

“Miss Bly has undoubtedly performed”: Ohio Democrat, December 17, 1887, 4.

“made a sensation from Maine to Georgia”: Iola Register, December 30, 1887, 3.

“I answered the summons with pleasure”: Bly, Ten Days, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html.

“I was astonished to find”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 6, 1947, 14.

“weak mutton broth” and the rest of the workhouse scene: Greenwood, Night in a Workhouse, pamphlet, reprinting of original articles.

“He Dug Her Grave”: Daily Arkansas Gazette, October 15, 1887, 1.

“Mrs. Robinson’s Fatal Leap”: New-York Tribune, October 10, 1887, 1.

“A Bride Choked with Gas”: Evening World, October 15, 1887, 1.

“I began to have a smaller regard”: World, October 9, 1887, 26.

“In ancient times”: Pall Mall Gazette, July 6, 1885.

“Could I pass a week” and the rest of the asylum article quotations in this chapter: World, October 9, 1887, 25–26, except where noted.

“Some people have since”: Bly, Ten Days, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html.

Chapter 3: Detective for the People (1888)

“a terrible tomboy”: Reminiscences of Eva MacDonald Valesh: Oral History, CUL.

“go do something else”: Ibid.

“Don’t know. What do you want”: St. Paul Globe, March 25, 1888, 10.

“when she learned some of the qualifications”: St. Paul Globe, May 13, 1888, 13.

“If your foreman insults you”: St. Paul Globe, March 25, 1888, 10.

Knights of Labor’s membership increasing from 104,000: Galenson, United Brotherhood, 43.

“petticoat detective” and “Statesmen Shaking at the Knees”: Buffalo News, April 3, 1888, 1.

“the spectacle of a brilliant young woman”: Times-Picayune, March 25, 1888, 10.

“If we do go back”: St. Paul Globe, April 19, 1888, 3.

“SHOTWELL, CLERIHEW & LOTHMAN, 6 CENTS” and the rest of this scene: St. Paul Globe, May 11, 1888, 4.

“charges of ungentlemanly conduct”: St. Paul Globe, May 12, 1888, 3.

“no character, no principle”: St. Paul Globe, June 3, 1888, 11.

“made by a body of men” and following quotations from the same article: Minneapolis Tribune, May 13, 1888, 4.

“What is a boycott?”: St. Paul Globe, April 29, 1888, 11.

“never indulging in laughter” and other quotations from this speech: Duluth Daily News, June 8, 1888, 4.

“The greatest little ‘Labor Agitator’”: Note in the margins of Eva McDonald to Sarah Stevens, January 5, 1891, MHSVP.

“The Firm of Shotwell, Clerihew & Lothman Embarrassed”: St. Paul Globe, June 14, 1888, 3.

“one of the most responsible in the city”: Minneapolis Tribune, May 13, 1888, 4.

“large Bankrupt Wholesale Dry Goods”: St. Paul Globe, October 4, 1888, 2.

“a crusade for women”: St. Paul Globe, April 1, 1888, 9.

“Well, we’ve come to a fine pass”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.

“joyfully made my escape”: St. Paul Globe, May 6, 1888, 9.

Chapter 4: Hunger for Trouble (1888)

“silly, flat, and dishwatery utterances”: Quoted in Wendt, Chicago Tribune, 189.

“Scandals in private life”: Wilkie, Reminiscences, 130–31.

“one of the ablest and handsomest journals in the world”: Chicago Times, April 22, 1888, 4.

“a particularly caustic pen”: A.S.A., Indianapolis News, 1.

“pretty blonde secretary” and other quotations from this encounter: Chicago Times, July 30, 1888, 1–2.

“They stuck in my woolen waist”: Chicago Times, August 7, 1888, 1.

“the sleeve of my ‘never-rip’ jersey” and other quotations from this encounter: Chicago Times, August 2, 1888, 1–2.

“miserable bullet-headed sapling”: Chicago Times, August 1, 1888, 1–2.

“I don’t think I can tell you”: Chicago Times, August 2, 1888, 1–2.

“But worse than broken shoes”: Chicago Times, August 1, 1888, 1–2.

“Aren’t you from the Times?” and other quotations from this encounter: Chicago Times, August 10, 1888, 1–2.

“the true knight errant of today”: Chicago Times, August 3, 1888.

“If they prefer working at starvation”: Ibid.

“made himself obnoxious to me” and “insolent”: Chicago Times, August 5, 1888.

“an anti-Semitic crusade”: Ibid.

“The highest compliment paid”: St. Paul Globe, December