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NOTES All letters cited in the notes are part of the Fannie Hurst Papers in the collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin. I. WOMAN IN THE BIG TOWN: CAREER AND LIFE I. Simms, VieuJs and Reviews (New York: n.p., 1845), I:2IO, referring to Jan'les Fenimore Cooper's novel Precaution, a text modeled after Jane Austen. Hawthorne quoted in Alexander Cowie, The Rise ifthe American Novel (NewYork:AmericanBook Company, 1948),412. . 2. Obituary, New York Times, February 24, 1958. Though most death notices appeared on the inside page reserved for such announcements, the Hurst obituary began on the front page, where it was noted that she had "died after a brief illness in her apartment at the Hotel des Artistes, I West 67th Street." 3. Theodore Dreiser, Dreiser LQoks at Russia (New York: Liveright, 1928),35. Others on the Dreiser popularity list for Russian readership included Rex Beach, Edna Ferber, and Zane Grey. 4. FH, Anatomy if Me (New York: Doubleday, 1958),344. The author made this dedication of her autobiography: "To My Friend / The Anonymous Public." 5. Quoted in Robert Van Gelder, "An Interview with Fannie Hurst," New York Times Book Review,January 25, 1942, 2. 6. Obituary. 7. FH, "The Sole Reason;' Saturday Evening Post, September 13, 1913, 15. In "The Key of A Flat" (Saturday Evening Post, September 28, 1912, 13), Rosey Slatts learns from a reputed sophisticate that "a green ticket act don't deliver the goods." The "green" experience is also the theme of"Ever,Ever Green" (Metropolitan, March 1915). 8. FH, Anatom)" 22. Hurst shaved years off her birth date, insisting on 1889; see Alice Childress, introduction to LUII'III'IOX, by FH (New York: New American Library, 1989), and the Hurst entry in Cathy N. Davidson and Linda W'lgner-Martin, eds., Oxford COl'npanion to Women's Writing (New York: Oxford Up, 1995). Most sources follow Hurst's official, but misleading, information. 9. FH, Anatol1l)" 6. IO. FH, Anatomy, 13, 20. II. Quoted in FH, Anatomy, 23, 24. 12. Vest Davis, £'lculty sponsor of Central High School (St. Louis) Annual, to FH, March 26, 1928. The correspondence also solicits "some anecdotes and reminiscences ." 177 NOTES TO PAGES 6-17 13. Quoted in FH, Anatomy, 75. 14· FH,Anatomy, 79. 15. Susan Koppelman, "The Educations of Fannie Hurst," Women;' Studies International Forum IO (1987): 513. 16. Koppelman, "Educations;' 514. 17. FH,Anatomy, 90. The "Deitschke;' or German Jew, "looks down on the Russian Jew because of his alleged crudeness;' noted one Bertha Pearl in her novel Sarah and Her Daughter (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920),83. 18. FH,Anatomy, 93, 97, 98. 19. William Marion Reedy to FH, February 19, 19[08?]. Hurst reproduced a typescript of this letter for a magazine bio-article she once projected, dating it as 1916, a time seven years after her graduation. She thus, however, had reduced her age for prospective publication by seven years. 20. FH, Anatomy, roo. 21. FH, Anatomy, 101. 22. Clipping from "Fannie Hurst;' Student Life (the newspaper of Washington University), February 18, 1930. 23. Quoted in FH, Anatomy, IlL 24. FH,Anatomy, n6-I7. 25. FH,Anatomy, II7-18. 26. Obituary. 27. Obituary. 28. Reedy to FH, November 29, 1910. 29. FH, Anatomy, 154. 30. Frank Luther Mott, A History ifAmerican Magazines (1885- 1905) (Cambridge: Harvard Up, 1957), 2:616. Davis had become regarded in the industry as a "fiction editor extraordinary." 31. Bob Davis if the Sun (pamphlet, n.p., n.d.), FH Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University ofTexas at Austin. 32. FH to Robert Hobart Davis,JanuarY4, 1928. 33. Davisto FH, November 20, 191 I. 34. Davis to FH,January 22, 1912. 35. Davis to PH, March 13, 1912. 36. Davis to FH, March 20, 1912; R ..H. Davis to FH, March 25, 19I2. 37. Davis to FH,April 1,1912. 38. Davis to FH, May 21, 1912. 39. FH, "Them Incandescents;' Cavalier,June 29, 1912,276. 40. PH, "Mere Man;' CavaUer,July I3, 1912, 69I. 41. FH, "The Revival of the Fittest;' Cavalier, May [4], I9I2, 527. 42. Davis to FH, December 27,1912. 43. Davis to FH,January 6, 1914. 44. George Horace Lorimer to FH, May 17, I9I2. 45. Lorimer to FH, October 10, 1912. 46. Lorimer to FH, October 30, I912. 47. Lorimer to FH,June 3,1913· 48. Lorimer to FH, October 14, I9I3. 178 [18.221.41.214] Project MUSE (2024...
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