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Great women of the press

Author: Madelon Golden Schilpp; Sharon Murphy
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1983.
Series: New horizons in journalism.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biographies
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Schilpp, Madelon Golden.
Great women of the press.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1983
(OCoLC)644977368
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Madelon Golden Schilpp; Sharon Murphy
ISBN: 0809310988 9780809310982
OCLC Number: 9082023
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xvi, 248 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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)
Series Title: New horizons in journalism.
Responsibility: by Madelon Golden Schilpp and Sharon M. Murphy ; foreword by Howard Rusk Long.
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