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M. E. C. Bates (1839–1905) – writer, journalist, newspaper editor; co-organizer/president of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; associate editor of the Grand Traverse Herald; writer for the Evening Record and the Detroit Tribune; oldest, continuous, newspaper correspondent in Michigan
Reenactment of printing newspapers in 18th-century colonial America. This list of women printers and publishers before 1800 includes women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a year or two for a book to be ...
The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page. It was James Franklin (1697–1735), Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late.
Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin. [1] She published the Newport Mercury, printed an almanac series, and printed Rhode Island paper currency.
List of African American newspapers in the United States; English-language press of the Socialist Party of America; List of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States; List of business newspapers in the United States; List of family-owned newspapers in the United States; List of Jewish newspapers in the United States
Remarkable South Carolina Women. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-4343-8. Read, Phyllis J. (1992). The Book of Women's Firsts. Random House Information Group. ISBN 978-0-679-40975-5. Schilpp, Madelon Golden (1983). Great women of the press. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0809310988. Sherrow, Victoria (2002). A to Z of American ...
A 1609 title page of the German Relation, the world's first newspaper founded in 1605 [1]. This list of the oldest newspapers sorts the newspapers of the world by the date of their first publication.
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905