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Brilliant bylines : a biographical anthology of notable newspaperwomen in America

Author: Barbara Belford
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1986.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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Genre/Form: Biography
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Belford
ISBN: 0231054963 9780231054966
OCLC Number: 13357990
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xiv, 385 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Part I: Bygone Bylines: Critic and foreign correspondent / Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) --
Crusader and feminist / Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) --
Women's editor and fashion reporter / Jane Cunningham Croly "Jennie June" (1829-1901) --
Investigative reporter and newspaper owner / Leonel Campbell O'Bryan "Polly Pry" (1857-1938) --
Personal advice columnist and crime reporter / Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer "Dorothy Dix" (1861-1951) --
Civil rights crusader and newspaper editor / Ida Bell Wells-Barrnett (1862-1931) --
Feature writer and sob sister / Winifred Black Bonfils "Annie Laurie" (1863-1936) --
Undercover and stunt reporter / Elizabeth Conchrane Seaman "Nellie Bly" (1865-1922) --
Feature writer, editor and novelist / Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1865-1947) --
Foreign affairs columnist / Anne O'Hare McCormick (1880-1954) --
Woman's angle reporter / Emma Bugbee (1888-1981) --
Foreign correspondent / Henrietta Goodnough Hull "Peggy Hull" (1889-1967) --
Part II: Bold Bylines: Foreign correspondent / Sigrid Schultz (1893-1980) --
Foriegn affairs columnist / Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) --
Front page reporter / Ishbel Ross (1895-1975) --
Tabloid reporter / Mildred Gilman (1896- ) --
National affairs columnist / Doris Fleeson (1901-1970) --
Syndicated Washington correspondent / Mary McGrory (1918- ) --
War correspondent / Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) --
Architecture critic / Ada Louise Huxtable (1921- ) --
Film critic / Judith Crist (1922- ) --
Foreign correspondent / Georgie Anne Geyer (1935- ) --
Syndicated columnist / Ellen Goodman (1941- ) --
Feature writer / Madeleine Blais (1947- ).
Responsibility: Barbara Belford.

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