Elizabeth Garver Jordan was a groundbreaking journalist, suffragist, and editor who gained notoriety for her coverage of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden. She also published detective novels and short story collections such as Tales of the City Room. She became an influential editor at Harper’s Bazaar, but her fiction and journalism are mainly out of print and her reputation as writer is mostly forgotten. The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings (Penguin Classics, 2024) is the first and only comprehensive collection of writings by Jordan. The publication is edited by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan, a professor of the practice in the Boston College English Department, who hope readers see a historical trajectory from Jordan’s pioneering literary activism to the writings of contemporary journalists and novelists whose work continues to fuel discussions of gender, feminism, and crime, raising questions about who gets to tell women’s stories. Read more about the book in this story from WBUR. Harrison-Kahan also is editor of the award-winning book The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson and co-editor of Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf.