Fannie Hurst, Vertical City
March is Women’s History Month. NY1920s always centers women’s history; this month we’ll do so a bit more emphatically.
New York Herald, 19 March 1922, p. 100. Newspapers.com
One hundred years ago today … Fannie Hurst’s Vertical City was published by Harper and Brothers.
New York Times, 26 March 1922, p. 72. Newspapers.com
You can read the work, six short stories set in 1920s NYC, here.
New York Herald, 5 March 1922, p. 98. Newspapers.com
Note: We have previously posted about Hurst while reporting on the Lucy Stone League, the movie adaptation of Humoresques, and literary salons.
– Jonathan Goldman, March 20, 2022
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