Author Archive: Elizabeth Foxwell

Minding the Gap: American Women Writers and World War I

Travel the roads from the scenes of battle; search the trains; wounded, frozen, starved thousands are dying in agonizing torture—not hundreds, but thousands. —Nellie Bly, “Hospital in Budapest Is Arena of Horror,” Washington Herald, 20 Jan 1915 As famed reporter Nellie Bly makes clear, women witnessed and wrote about the horrors of World War I, […]