Independent scholar and New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn will give a talk on her new book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris. Zoe, as everyone called her, was a Kentucky belle turned restless Kansas housewife turned lauded writer/reformer/publisher on the Lower East Side. In the 1910s, she documented desperate immigrant poverty in her bimonthly magazine, The East Side. Defying her era’s ingrained xenophobia and sometimes dressing as a pauper to report undercover, Zoe was guided by her motto: “To fight for the poor with my pen.” She raged against predatory landlords, corrupt charity executives, and Ellis Island deportation forces, among other villains.
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