Biography on cornelia walter
- American journalist.
- Cornelia Wells Walter is generally considered to have been the first woman editor of a major newspaper in the United States.
- This thesis is a study of Cornelia Wells Walter, first American woman to edit a daily newspaper.
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When Cornelia Walter was born on 11 November 1855, in Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Henry Walter, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Ann Fraunfelter, was 24. She married Benjamin Franklin Reinhard on 5 August 1873, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 11 April 1920, in Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Cornelia Walter
American newspaper editor (1815–1898)
Cornelia Wells Walter (June 7, 1815 – January 31, 1898)[1] is generally considered to have been the first woman editor of a major newspaper in the United States.[2]
Biography
Walter was the fourth and youngest child of Lynde Walter, a Boston merchant, and his second wife, Ann Minshull.[1]
Her brother Lynde Walter was one of the founders of the Boston Evening Transcript in 1830. Originally the paper's theater critic, at age 29 she became the editor of the Transcript, taking over the position from her brother upon his death in 1842.[3] She served as editor from 1842 to 1847.[4][5]
Under Walter, the Transcript reflected the conservative tastes of upper class Bostonians. She opposed slavery and praised Frederick Douglass, but also chided abolitionists and published articles against abolition. She criticized authors who were later firmly embraced by the literary canon, such as James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1845, s
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Cornelia Wells Walter: first American woman to edit a daily newspaper, Boston Daily Evening Transcript, 1842-1847
This thesis is a study of Cornelia Wells Walter, first American woman to edit a daily newspaper. She served as editor of the Boston Daily Evening Transcript from 1842-1847. Under her editorship, the Transcript retained the cultural and intellectual tone established when her brother founded the paper in 1830. Upon his death, Walter was asked by the publisher to take her brother’s place as editor of the paper. The Transcript reflected the interests of the elite of Boston, particularly benevolent and reform issues, but it also dealt with political issues including the rights and education of women, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War and Irish immigration. This thesis includes an overview of the history of women and their changing status in this country from colonial times to the first half of the 19th century, with an emphasis on upper class Boston women. This provides the framework in which to view the early life and education of Cornelia Walter. Family letters,
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