Name Jeannette Gilder | Siblings Joseph Benson Gilder | |
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Died 1916, New York City, New York, United States Books The Last Confessions of Marie Bashkirtseff and Her Correspondence with Guy de Maupassant - Scholar's Choice Edition | ||
Jeannette Leonard Gilder (October 3, 1849 – January 17, 1916) was a pioneer for United States women in journalism.
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She was a daughter of the clergyman William Henry Gilder. She was connected from 1869 with various newspapers in Newark and New York. She also worked for The Boston Evening Transcript writing under the pen name "Brunswick." Gilder was the New York Correspondent of the Transcript. In 1881, she helped to co-found The Critic, a literary magazine that was merged with the third incarnation of Putnam's Magazine in 1906.
Gilder was associated with her brother, Richard Watson Gilder, in the editorship of Scribner's Monthly (later called the Century), and was joint editor with her brother Joseph Benson Gilder of the Critic from 1881 to 1906. Another brother was the explorer William Henry Gilder.