Marie Anderson
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Beyond Julia’s Daughters
I just ordered the book Beyond Julia’s Daughters. It’s an update to the book on Miami women that Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson wrote, Julia’s Daughters. Included in the updated edition are the biographies of Marie Anderson and Helen Muir.
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- Allen Nueharth, Florida Women's Pages, Gloria Biggs, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson
Marie Anderson & Al Neuharth
Gannett newspaper executive Allen Neuharth was a big champion for women journalists and later promoted women’s page editors Gloria Biggs and Marjorie Paxson to publishers. This letter is from Neuharth to Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson. It can be found in her papers at the WHMC. I have published articles about Marjorie and Marie.
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women’s pages and housewives
The New York Times has a great essay about housewives in the 1950s, focusing on the witty writer, Phyllis McGinley. Here’s a segment: “A liberal arts education is not a tool like a hoe . . . or an electric mixer,” McGinley wrote, dismayed at a world she thought was conspiring to make women feel as though any acquired erudition would be wasted in a life of riffling through recipe cards. “It is a true and precious stone which can glow as wholesomely on a kitchen table as when it is put on exhibition in a jeweler’s window or bartered for bread and butter.” She went on to dismiss the…
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Lance and I went to Brevard County yesterday to clean up the beach in an effort to help save the sea turtles. One of the most significant women in Florida conservation was Marjory Stoneman Douglas who helped save the Everglades. Marjory was good friends with many of the Florida’s women’s page editors. Here she is with several of them, including Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney. (Marjory is the one wearing the hat.)
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Marie Anderson’s mother II
I just received the book Celebrating Florida’s First 150 Women Lawyers in the mail. (My thanks to the folks at Stetson University for the suggestion.) It shows that Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson’s mother (who shared the same name) earned a law degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1914. The photo with her biography (pg 9) looks very much like her daughter who is shown above.
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Marie Anderson’s mother
Marie Anderson’s mother, Marie Willard, is included in these photos. (Marie Anderson was a significant women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s.) They were taken in 1908 at a school in Bartow, Florida. The photos are from the Florida Photographic Collection.
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