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- Summaries Helen, Tracy's daughter, becomes dissatisfied with boarding school and threatens to run away. In her dilemma, Helen's mother appeals to the clever sob-sister for assistance. Nell visits the school and exacts a promise from Helen that she will remain there.
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Nov 10, 2017 · Take “sob sisters,” a term used in the early twentieth century to make fun of women journalists who dared cover the first “trial of the century“. As Jean Marie Lutes reveals, that evocative term exposed the contradictions faced by a group of groundbreaking journalists.
The Sob-Sisters Arise. By Edmund Pearson. November 3, 1933. The New Yorker, November 11, 1933 P. 25. Tells of the trial of Maria Barberi who slit the throat of her lover from ear to ear because...
Pioneer female journalist Ishbel Ross tells a story about the origin of the term sob sister that has been picked up by many commentators. She claims the derogatory name dates from the 1907
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Sob sister. Sob sister was an American term in the early 20th century for reporters (usually women) who specialized in newspaper articles (often called "sob stories") with emphasis on the human interest angle using language of sentimentality. [1] [2] The derogatory label was coined in 1907 during coverage of a scandalous murder trial that ...
story and its reading" (26-27). These news narratives are indebted to literary sentimentalism's focus on human connection and affec-tional loss (Dobson 266-67). Yet the phrase sob sister and its cog-nate, sob story, inject a jarring note of self-interest and acknowl-edged artifice into the sentimental tradition. For the New Woman,
Jul 6, 2011 · Grace is nothing new in American culture. She is a “sob sister,” a stock figure that is more than a century old and is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “a journalist, especially a...
