Jane Grey Swisshelm, who opened the Capitol Hill press gallery to women, crusaded for two major reforms in her long newspaper career--abolitionism and woman's rights. A radical on abolitionism but more conservative on woman's rights, Swisshelm argued...
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815—July 22, 1884) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate. Swisshelm was born Jane Grey Cannon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, daughter of Thomas Cannon, a Presbyterian...
Hoffert, Sylvia D. Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 207 pp. $39.95. Jane Grey Swisshclm is no stranger to media historians and students. Thanks to the pioneering work of Kathleen Endrcs in 1975, as...
Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884. By Sylvia D. Hoffert. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 272 pp. $39.95. Jane Addams: A Writer's Life. By Katherine Joslin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 328 pp. $35.00. Two new biographies...
