The Madigans

Miriam Michelson was a feminist force to be reckoned with. She was a brazen, liberated woman who broke gender barriers in the journalistic profession, covering crime and politics for San Francisco's top dailies throughout the 1890s, a decade that relegated most female reporters to the soft news of the so-called "Woman's Page."
She went on to become one of the early 20th century's most commercially successful fiction writers, supporting herself by publishing short stories in a range of mass ...