A Yellow Journalist

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905 First edition. Inspired by the author's own experiences as a journalist in San Francisco, this collection of loosely intertwined stories featuring Rhoda Massey, a "tramp journalist; once a reporter, not yet a desk man" working in the big city (p. 147). Massey investigates a Black maid accused of forging a dead woman's will, illegal gambling in Chinatown, nuns, mobsters, and Japanese art collectors. Publisher's black cloth stamped in yellow. . Octavo. Four plates (including frontispiece) by Gordon Grant (1875 – 1962). Wear and some discoloration to cloth at edges of boards and spine. Spot of slight bubbling to lower board. Toning to edges, but otherwise quite clean throughout. A very good, tight copy Miriam Michelson (1870 – 1942) was journalist and novelist. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrant parents who fled Poland to escape antisemitic persecution and settled in California, where Michelson was born. Over the course of a forty-year journalism career, Michelson wrote for three San Francisco newspapers (Arthur McEwen's Letter, the Call, and the Bulletin) and the Philadelphia North American. She drew on her own experiences in the writing of the present work, especially the time she spent on a team of San Francisco Bulletin writers covering corruption in the city's Chinatown neighborhood. Her work often addressed women's employment, education, voting rights, and marriage status, as well as racism, imperialism, and poverty. Some of her most important reporting covered conditions at Indian boarding schools in the Southwest, the protests of Native Hawaiians against American annexation, and Black soldiers in the Spanish-American War. (Inventory #: 17788)