New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth and final book in this popular. Set in 1944-1945 during World War II, this includes a preface by the author in which she talks about the restrictions placed on women journalists and how often these were circumvented. In this book, the career of her fictional character, Peggy Foster is based on those of real women journalists - Mrs Elizabeth May Craig, Sonia Tamara and Lee Carson, the only American woman war correspondent who crossed the Remagan Bridge. In 1911, the author, Emma Bugbee, was the first woman hired by the New York Herald as a reporter, and she worked there for 55 years. Her assignment was to cover a weeks-long march of suffragists from New York City to Albany. She was also a founder of the Newspaper Women's Club of New York, and one of just a "few prominent female reporters who sought to expand the role of women in the male-dominated world of journalism that existed when she began her career. She was best known for her intimate coverage of Eleanor Roosevelt, beginning in 1933 amidst the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's terms of office and ending with a reminiscence of the former First Lady, written on the day of her death in 1962." An association copy INSCRIBED by Bugbee to "Bess herself with love" ("Bess" was probably noted reporter Bess Furman Armstong who covered the White House during 5 administrations and was, like Bugbee, close to Eleanor Roosevelt) and SIGNED "Peggy May Emma" ("May" refers to Elizabeth May Craig, the journalist whose activities were paralleled by Peggy in this series) A book which is now quite hard to find, scarce in dustjacket and with an interesting and uncommon signature. xii, 276 pp. Map endpapers.