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Martha Gellhorn and the Sickly-Sweet Lies of Women's Fiction

Just how great must a woman’s achievements be before her story can stand clear of romantic lies?

Nancy BernhardOctober 24, 2018martha gellhorn, ernest hemingway, paula mclain, meg waite clayton, feminist, misogyny, #metoo Comment

Gellhorn's Hope (or, Why I Wrote This Book)

Martha Gellhorn suffered every major diagnostic criterion for trauma.

Nancy BernhardOctober 23, 2018martha gellhorn, trauma, war journalism, war correspondence, Dachau Comments

Martha Gellhorn Didn't Need Permission

Discrimination often fuels creativity in the marginal spaces left to those excluded, so Martha Gellhorn became something different from a war correspondent: she became a writer at war, and one of a kind.

Nancy BernhardOctober 22, 2018martha gellhorn, women journalists, war journalism, war correspondence, world war ii, Collier's, Spanish Civil War, censorshipComment