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Death of Newspaper Pioneer Marjorie Paxson
I was sad to learn that Marjorie Paxson has died. She was a pioneering women’s page editor who went on to become the fourth female publisher at Gannett. Her papers are available here. Here is a link to her oral history. Here is my article about Paxson. Marjorie is a major figure in my Women Politicking Politely book.
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Review of The Food Section
I appreciate this great review of The Food Section in the Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture.
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Frances Foster as Advice Columnist Molly Mayfield
I found this image of Francis Foster who authored the longtime (some say first) newspaper advice column. It was published in the women’s pages.
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Thesis About Newspaper Advice Columns
I appreciate UCF’s ILL for tracking down this thesis, “A Value-Analysis of Advice Columns in Newspapers” from 1953 at the University of Texas. These columns typically ran in the women’s section of newspapers. In this study, the author examined the following columns: Mrs. Mayfield’s Mailbag (Denver Rocky Mountain News), Martha Carr’s Opinion (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Mary Haworth’s Mail (San Jose Mercury) and The Good Neighbor/Anita Day Hubbard (San Francisco Examiner). These women will be a part of my upcoming book about women’s page journalism. I am collecting information abut them – including the work of Mary Haworth, which was the pen name for Mary Elizabeth Young. Her papers are at…
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Seattle P-I’s Lettie Gavin
I found another women’s page journalist to add to the book: Lettie Gavin. From her obituary:”Lettie Gavin: 1922-2006: ‘Collecting people’s stories is what she was about’ At one point in the 1970s, during Lettie Gavin’s Seattle P-I career, editor Jack Doughty spotted her purse on her desk and had a fit. The old-school newspaperman didn’t like it sitting there.Gavin, a trailblazer for women in the newsroom, responded, “This is where I keep it.”It stayed. And so did she. Gavin, a former editor and reporter known for her attention-grabbing way with words and curiosity about the world, died Monday from pneumonia, said her son Tom Gudmestad, 53. The Queen Anne resident,…
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Food Section From the 1950s
I came across this food section that ran on April 11, 1958. A friend’s grandmother was one of the featured women.
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