Impertinences selected writings of Elia Peattie, a journalist in the Gilded Age - Peattie, Elia Wilkinson 1862-1935 (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-330) and index
Introduction: a writer's beginnings, 1862-1896 -- Early Omaha. "A word with the women": Defending Omaha -- "Seen with one's eyes open: what is to be seen from an open motor car in Omaha" -- "How they live at Sheely: pen picture of a strange settlement and its queer inhabitants" -- "A sociological soliloquy: some thoughts suggested by the proposed exodus from the Bottoms" -- "Mrs. Peattie in rebuttal: just a word or two in passing concerning the society question" -- "Work of the day nursery: the Creche and what it does for women who must work" -- "The working girls' home: a description of the place on Seventeenth Street, between Douglas and Dodge" -- "With works of charity: St. Joseph's Hospital and the good sisters who do its work" -- "Omaha's black population: the negroes of this city: who they are and where they live" -- "Killing, yet no murder: a day at the stock yards in South Omaha" --
- Fact and fiction. "No need of prostitution: Mrs. Peattie refuses to accept the claim that the wanton is a necessity" -- "Leda" -- "Lovely woman and Indians" -- "The triumph of Starved Crow" -- "A word with the women": Francis Schlatter, faith healer -- "A word with the women": For the sake of love -- "The law and the lynchers" -- Community concerns. "Stand up, ye social lions: Mrs. Peattie arraigns the sickly forms that sin from nature's rule" -- "What women are doing": the art of shopping -- "All fuss and feathers: wedding ceremonies which are almost grotesque because of their flummery" -- "The mockery of mourning: thoughts upon outward signs of inward grief prescribed by convention" -- "Want to see a knock-out: Americans seem to feel that way in spite of their civilization" -- "The work of the worker: qualities in evangelist Mills that give him success in soul winning" -- "A Salvation Army funeral" --
- "Brains in the school room: some pertinent remarks regarding the needs of the public schools" -- A word with the women. "Ties which do not bind: the matrimonial knot and the ease with which it is broken" -- "How not to treat babies" -- "Where are the children? A lay sermon suggested by Chief Seavey to Colonel Hogeland" -- "The women on the farms: a chapter of advice for them which city women need not read" -- "Barriers against women: they are mostly erected by the women themselves through blind superstition" -- "What women are doing": protection for working women -- "The Woman's Club: it will be distinctively feminine and run to please women" -- "A word with the women": Stromsburg's Woman's Club -- "No distinction as to color: Chicago Woman's Club abolishes the prohibitory rule at its last meeting" -- People and Places. "A Bohemian in Nebraska: A Peep at a Home Which Is a Slice Out of Bohemia" -- "A word with the women": Willa Cather --