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Joining us this evening is Ms. Kristen Stelphax, here to discuss some of the Great War's earliest war correspondence.

Now, this topic by itself is of interest, but let me add the key detail that these early correspondence were women.

For the time period of World War I, this is really something quite new and pathbreaking.

And with the passage of time, these women have been largely forgotten.

And we're here today to say their names again and tell their stories.

The book will be referencing in this episode is Chris Dubbs, An Unladylike

Profession. The overview on the Thrift Books website is as follows. Quote, an eye-opening

look at women's war reporting, an unladylike profession is a portrait of a sisterhood

from the Guns of August to the corridors of Versailles.

When World War One began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism.

But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from stepping into the breach, defying gender norms, and official restrictions

to establish roles for themselves

and to write new kinds of narratives about women and war.

Chris Dubs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie Bly, and more than 30 other American women who worked as war reporters.

As Dubs shows, stories by these journalists brought in women from the

periphery of war and made them active participants, fully engaged and equally heroic, if

bearing different burdens and making different sacrifices. Women journalists traveled from belligerent

capitals to the front lines to report on the conflict, but their experiences also brought them into contact with social transformations,

political unrest,

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