1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392459203316

Autore

R. S <fl. 1596.>

Titolo

A briefe treatise, to prooue the necessitie and excellence of the vse of archerie. Abstracted out of ancient and moderne writers. By R:S. Perused, and allowed by aucthoritie [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

At London, : Printed by Richard Iohnes, at the Rose and Crowne; next aboue S. Andrewes Church in Holburne, 1596

Descrizione fisica

[24] p. : ill. (woodcut)

Soggetti

Archery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signatures B²  Â² B-C⁴ D² .

Running title reads: The necessitie, and excellencie of archerie.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963666803321

Autore

Fahs Alice

Titolo

Out on assignment : newspaper women and the making of modern public space / / Alice Fahs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-908770-8-6

1-4696-0256-3

0-8078-6903-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Disciplina

070.4082

Soggetti

Women journalists - United States

Women in journalism - United States - History - 20th century

Women and journalism - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Among the newspaper women -- The woman's page -- Human interest -- Bachelor girls -- Adventure -- Work -- Travel -- Epilogue: toward suffrage.

Sommario/riassunto

Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major cities--especially New York--from all parts of the United States.  Newspaper women were part of a wave of women seeking new, independent, urban lives, but they struggled to obtain the newspaper work of their dreams. Although some female journalists embraced more adventurous reportin