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Dorothea Dix’s Advocacy for the Mentally Ill in North Carolina
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Found in Gastonia: A journalist’s angry voice
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ernest hemingway, gastonia nc, martha gellhorn, textile workers, war correspondents on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“It was in the textile mills of North Carolina [in 1934 that Martha Gellhorn, a 25-year-old investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration] found the writing voice she had been looking for. It was clear and simple, a careful selection of scenes and quotes…. What made it her own was the tone, the barely contained [...]
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