Martha Gellhorn World War II archives A Stricken Field Love Goes to Press Point of No Return Collier's magazine
Abstract:
This thesis explores Martha Gellhorn’s role as a journalist and author during World War II. She was concerned with the educational power of media and emphasized accurate, ethical reporting. In her published works, as well as private letters found in the Crowell-Collier Collection at the New York Public Library, Gellhorn discussed the importance of the public record and her duty to contribute to it. Though her work is sometimes overshadowed by her contemporaries, her writing added an unexplored facet to the record: disadvantaged, unheard voices. I will explore her work, both published and unpublished, as it relates to oppressive governments, gender disparity, and societal ignorance. She describes her dismay at these topics in particular within A Stricken Field, Love Goes to Press, and Point of No Return, alongside many articles and personal letters. I intend to demonstrate Martha Gellhorn’s value as a contributor of unheard voices to the public record.
