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  Hahn, Emily
Emily was born on January 14, 1905 and died at age 92 in 1997.
However, as a new engineering student Hahn was met with great resistance from the all-male faculty and student body, which even appealed to the state legislature to have her barred from enrolling.
Hahn went on to become a world traveler and prolific writer, documenting her experiences from around the globe in 52 books as well as 181 pieces for The New Yorker.
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 Emily Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emily Hahn (January 14, 1905 - February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author.
One of six children of a dry goods salesman father and a free-thinking mother, Emily Hahn was born in St.
Hahn reportedly went into her office at The New Yorker daily, until just a few months before she died, on February 18, 1997 at the age of 92, following complications from surgery for a shattered femur, suffered in a fall.
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 Amazon.ca: Nobody Said Not To Go: Books: Ken Cuthbertson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Emily (Mickey) Hahn broke every convention of her time: a woman who studied mining engineering in collage, a lone white woman in Africa in the early 1930's, a single woman in China, an American "married" to a Chinese as his concubine and a journalist caught in the Japanese invasion of that country.
Emily was also a fixture in the expatriate scene, writing for the New Yorker and known for showing up at Victor Sassoon's lavish parties with a pet baboon in tow, clad in diapers after a few unfortunate mishaps.
Emily Hahn did the kind of wild things that most women of her day (she was born in 1905 and died in 1997) only dreamed of and that very few dared to write about.
www.amazon.ca /Nobody-said-not-loves-adventures/dp/0571199658   (1917 words)

  
 Yale Review of Books: Nobody Said Not to Go
Emily Hyde is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards.
And yet, Hahn's own writing is not this simple; when she gets bogged down, she flips back to tell a story or ahead to give away what happens next.
Emily Hahn, born in 1905, transferred into a college of engineering in which women had never before enrolled.
www.yale.edu /yrb/winter98/review09.htm   (573 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: China to Me: Books: Emily Hahn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hahn (Eve and the Apes) was considered scandalous when she published this 1944 memoir of her nine years in China and Hong Kong.
Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties.
Hahn investigates not so much the complicated issues of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinary, or extraordinary, lives of Chinese residents and tourists.
www.amazon.ca /China-Me-Emily-Hahn/dp/0759240604   (282 words)

  
 Nobody Said Not to Go
Hahn's restlessness also led her to spend years in Asia, during which she was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai; to dabble at spying; and to have an affair and an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong before the outbreak of World War II.
Ken Cuthbertson presents Emily Hahn's life -- including a 50-year career as a New Yorker writer -- in a biography so workmanlike that the sound of hammers practically echoes.
As presented by Cuthbertson, Hahn (referred to by the nickname Mickey throughout) was a brilliant writer and egocentric to a fault; she specialized in flouting the mores of her time, with a flamboyance that often tried family and friends.
partners.nytimes.com /books/98/10/11/bib/981011.rv103738.html   (263 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Emily Hahn
Bio: A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having an illegitimate child.
Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that characterized the Victorian Era and was an advocate for the environment until her death at age ninety-two.
As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/EmilyHahneBooks.htm   (324 words)

  
 NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. August 23, 2002 | PBS
EMILY HARRIS: Eric Schaeffer used to be the head of the enforcement branch of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hahn learned early after the 2000 election, that the new administration would go to new lengths to control what happens on these lands — and limit the public's right to know.
EMILY HARRIS: Martha Hahn knows this is more expensive for the ranchers, but she says it's practically the only way to keep cows from ruining stream banks and polluting water.
www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript131_full.html   (7870 words)

  
 Amazon.frĀ : Eve and the Apes: Livres en anglais: Emily Hahn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hahn, herself a primate fancier, calls attention to the affinity between women and apes with engaging stories about nine remarkable women.
Hahn, author of On the Side of the Apes, gives us a delightful portrait of women and their very special animal friends.
Writing for lay readers, Hahn highlights curious and entertaining incidents; but at times she rambles and may lose all but the most avid ape lovers.
www.amazon.fr /Eve-Apes-Emily-Hahn/dp/0345360532   (459 words)

  
 Emily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emily (the) Strange is a cartoon character and merchandising mascot.
The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 WWII movie that was adapted from the novel by William Bradford Huie.
In 2005, Emily was considered to be the most popular baby name for a female based on the number of new social security cards bearing the name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emily   (464 words)

  
 Emily Hahn (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Even at an early age, Hahn had a rebellious streak for her times, and she resolved to obtain a degree in mining engineering at the University of Wisconsin, even though all of her classmates and instructors were opposed to her being there.
Hahn then went to Europe, visiting Florence and London, before moving on to the Belgian Congo to work for the Red Cross, and to Shanghai, where she lived as concubine for a Chinese poet.
When the Japanese invaded China, Hahn was forced to remain in Shanghai until she was repatriated in 1943.
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 HAHN MSS.
Hahn was born in St. Louis and lived there until her family moved to Chicago during her high school years.
The Sino-Japanese conflict eventually caused Hahn to leave Shanghai for Hong Kong, where she was later forced to remain after the Japanese took over that area in 1941.
Additions to Hahn mss., 1979-1981, are the manuscript and galleys for The Islands, by Emily Hahn (New York: Coward, McCann and Geohagen, 1981) and a typescript for a shorter work, The Bearded Demoiselle.
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/hahn.html   (570 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - NO HURRY TO GET HOME: The Memoir of the New Yorker Emily Hahn Whose Unconventional Life and ...
At the young age of 24, author Emily Hahn began her professional writing career working for the popular magazine The New Yorker.
Hahn felt anger and frustration at having been uprooted from everything familiar to her when the family made the move to Chicago.
Hahn was not only a writer, she was an adventurer, in a place, few of us have ever dared to go.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/158005045X.asp   (714 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn: English Books: Ken Cuthbertson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hahn's exploits crested with her stay in Shanghai and Hong Kong from 1935 through 1943.
Emily Hahn was a writer for the New Yorker magazine, but she also wrote more than 50 books.
Hahn, who wrote for the New Yorker magazine for an astounding 68 years, died in February 1997 at age 92.
www.amazon.de /Nobody-Said-Not-Go-Adventures/dp/0571199658   (1196 words)

  
 Amazon.com: No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living.
Hahn tells of an exotic existence in a practical and clear voice rich with her honest observations of the people and places of Chicago, London, the Belgian Congo, and Shanghai.
'Emily Hahn was an original--a first-generation feminist who chose not to be called one, a woman of courage who constantly underplayed it, a reporter of the acts of men and animals, whose peculiar likeness she grasped perhaps better than any other writer of her time.
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 Emily Hahn - Emily Hahn: 'Nobody Said Not to Go', and other stories
On this day in 1905 Emily ("Mickey") Hahn was born.
Perhaps it is also unnecessary: Hahn's years in the Far East are currently the focus of a British movie and a Canadian television documentary, and her 1970 Times and Places was reissued in 2001 (under the title No Hurry to Get Home).
These New Yorker pieces certainly show that her strength, apart from her strength of character, is in travel-memoir: most of them make you feel as if there, or make you wish you had been, and in her company...
www.todayinliterature.com /today-ct.asp?id=1/14/2005   (157 words)

  
 HAHN MSS. III
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, followed by letters from Emily Hahn, mostly written to family members.
Hahn, Emily, daughters and Charles Boxer - 15; one in
Hahn, Emily with dolphins in Japan - 6, 20 duplicates
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/hahn3inv.html   (707 words)

  
 Amazon.com: China to Me: Books: Emily Hahn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Even though she met many prominent figures during the course of her stay, the book reads more like the chronicle of the daily life of Emily Hahn, an original and a socialite.
Well, Emily Hahn mentions them briefly, but it's simply to insist on the fact that she knows nothing about them, hinting that there is not much to know anyway.
The publisher's backpage note about the author presents Emily Hahn as a writer who revolutionized the Victorian era, which sounds a bit funny given that she was born in 1905, a few years after Queen Victoria's death.
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 Amazon.com: "Emily Hahn": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
One of them, Emily Hahn, had come down from Shanghai, where she had written a column supportive of the mainland resistance called `Candid Comment' Busy...
Emily Hahn, a young geology teacher at Hunter College, sold the magazine three short casuals in its early...
Emily Hahn, a young writer and friend of John Gunther's visiting London, got a glimpse of Anthony and Rebecca together.
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 China to me a partial autobiography par Emily Hahn | LibraryThing
Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn par Ken Cuthbertson (Amazon
Emily's experience living in China from about 1935 to 1942.
It is an interesting story - she was quite a pioneer.
www.librarything.fr /work/144031   (217 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Nobody Said Not To Go :Emily Hahn at Epinions.com
Born in 1905, during the course of her life it seems she broke just about every mold.
The writing is a tad plodding at times, and on a couple of occasions I found the chronology confusing, but it's clear a lot of care was given to tell her story and to do it justice.
Emily Hahn was an amazing person and her life story is engrossing reading, not to mention inspiring!
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 China to me a partial autobiography por Emily Hahn | LibraryThing
China to me a partial autobiography por Emily Hahn
No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century por Emily Hahn (Amazon
Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn por Ken Cuthbertson (Amazon
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 Emily Hahn Life Stories, Books, & Links
On this day in 1905 Emily Hahn was born.
Hahn would run away to the Congo, be the concubine of a Shanghai poet, have a child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong, be a pioneer in environmentalism, and write fifty-two books.
Roger Angell described her as The New Yorker's "Belle Geste"; biographer Ken Cuthbertson chose her most characteristic line as his title: "Nobody Said Not to Go."
todayinliterature.com /biography/emily.hahn.asp   (97 words)

  
 TIME.com: Emily & Tom -- Nov. 18, 1946 -- Page 1
In her books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow.
Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally—at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick.
Author Hahn supports the theory that the British Empire was much more a collection of happy accidents (happy for the British) than the resuit of a long-range policy.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,777355,00.html   (638 words)

  
 Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A feminist trailblazer before the word existed, Hahn also wrote hundreds of articles and short stories for The New Yorker from 1925 to 1995, as well as fifty books in many genres.
As Roger Angell wrote in her obituary in The New Yorker: "She was, in truth, something rare: a woman deeply, almost domestically, at home in the world.
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 Searching for Emily Hahn on the Streets of St Louis -- Wasserstrom 61 (1): 214 -- History Workshop Journal
Searching for Emily Hahn on the Streets of St Louis -- Wasserstrom 61 (1): 214 -- History Workshop Journal
Searching for Emily Hahn on the Streets of St Louis
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom currently serves as Director of the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University.
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 palm eBook Store: Author: Emily Hahn
A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the 1920s, including traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having an illegitimate child.
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 BookHq: Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn by Ken Cuthbertson ( 0571199658 )
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 Emily Hahn — Infoplease.com
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Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn.
The nineteenth (1992) supplement to a cross-referenced index of short fiction anthologies and author-title listings.
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 China to Me eBooks - Emily Hahn - Visit eBookMall Today!
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Blending fiction and nonfiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breathtaking journey through the China of the 1930s.
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