Creator
Zoe Anderson Norris.
Title
“The Kidnaping of Poggioreale’s Twins,” The Munsey,
Date
April 1908.
Subject
Cover art by Charles M. Relyea.
Description
The heroine, a struggling Kentuckian journalist on the Lower East Side, loses out on news scoops when “night-hawk reporters” beat her to midnight crime scenes of anarchists’ bombings and kidnappings. She persuades an Italian immigrant family’s twin girls to sit for photographs, which she publishes with articles about the sisters’ supposed kidnapping and rescue—her fake news draws acclaim and pays the rent. This lighthearted take on Gilded Age unrest was also syndicated in newspapers.
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.