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Susanne George Bloomfield is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works, both available in Bison Books editions.

"Peattie provides a fascinating inside view of life in the late 19th century-but as Bloomfield reminds use, most of her topics 'show just how little has changed in the last one-hundred-plus years.'"-Nebraska Life Nebraska Life "I cannot say enough about Peattie's editorials. They are so well thought out, so beautifully and persuasively written, so logical, that her editorials make those in our present day newspapers read as if they had been written by junior high dropouts."-Roundup Magazine Roundup Magazine "The book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on the history of US journalism."-Choice Choice "In collecting Peattie's work, Bloomsfield helps to close an existing gender gap in anthologies of literary journalism and sheds light on a woman journalist whose work offers historians the opportunity to understand both the times in which she lived and the ways in which women were able to contribute to journalism."-American Journalism American Journalism "Susanne George Bloomfield, a professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, has made a readable selection from Peattie's hundreds of thousands of words, and has prefaced the collection with an adroit summary of Peattie's hard-working life."-James Boylan, Columbian Journalism Review -- James Boylan Columbian Journalism Review