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May Iverson's Career

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

A young woman trades her convent upbringing for the thrilling chaos of newspaper reporting, soon finding herself embroiled in mysteries and dangers she never imagined.

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2012-11-09
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Summary

"May Iverson's Career" by Elizabeth Garver Jordan is a story about a young woman who leaves the quiet life of a convent to chase her dreams as a journalist in the exciting and challenging world of New York City. After graduating from St. Catharine's convent, May Iverson decides against becoming a nun, choosing instead to follow her father's suggestion to go into journalism. Her first job throws her into a thrilling and slightly spooky situation involving a haunted house, a strange old woman, and escaped criminals; she gets a quick understanding about how exciting, and also how dangerous, her new career can be, giving readers a hint of the tough and interesting things that are to come as she learns the ins and outs of being a reporter.

About the Author

Elizabeth Garver Jordan was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913.

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