Bibliograph

Great women of the press, by Madelon Golden Schilpp and Sharon M. Murphy ; foreword by Howard Rusk Long

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Great women of the press, by Madelon Golden Schilpp and Sharon M. Murphy ; foreword by Howard Rusk Long

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index

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collective biography

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Great women of the press

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

9082023

Responsibility statement

by Madelon Golden Schilpp and Sharon M. Murphy ; foreword by Howard Rusk Long

Series statement

New horizons in journalism

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- Elizabeth Timothy : first woman publisher (c. 1700-1757) -- Mary Katherine Goddard : colonial publisher and postmistress (1738-1816) -- Anne Newport Royall : travel correspondent and Washington editor (1769-1854) -- Sarah Josepha Hale : first women's magazine editor (1788-1879) -- Margaret Fuller : critic and foreign correspondent (1810-1850) -- Cornelia Walter : editor of the Boston Transcript (1813-1898) -- Jane Grey Swisshelm : abolitionist, feminist, journalist (1815-1884) -- Jane Cunningham Croly : Jennie June, women's advocate (1829-1901) -- Eliza Nicholson : Pearl Rivers, publisher of the Picayune (1849-1896) -- Ida Minerva Tarbell : muckraker (1857-1944) -- Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer : Dorothy Dix, personal advice columnist (1861-1951) -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : crusader (1862-1931) -- Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman : Nelly Bly, feature writer (1865-1922) -- Winifred Black Bonfils : Annie Lurie, reformist reporter (1863-1936) -- Rheta Childe Dorr : freedom fighter (1866-1948) -- Dorothy Thompson : political columnist (1893-1961) -- Margaret Bourke-White : pioneer photojournalist (1904-1971) -- Marguerite Higgins : war correspondent (1920-1966) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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