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  • Collection: Gossip Columns and Columnists

"Gossips," Bedford County Press and Everett Press, June 28, 1871

A short column entry on "Gossips" which reports Greenwood saying that women are rather unfairly "satirized" for their "propensity to gossip" as the best gossips she has come across have been among government employees. Credit Newspaper.com

"Grace Greenwood Gossip," Alton Weekly Telegraph, Aug 28, 1868

A review of Greenwood's Eminent Women, where her account of Fanny Fern and Harriet Beecher Stowe is referred to as gossip. Credit Newspaper.com

Interesting Gossip, Richmond Dispatch, July 5, 1852

A short entry about Grace Greenwood stating that celebrity opera singer Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is an abolitionist, which is presented as "interesting gossip". Credit Newspaper.com

"Letters from the Capital," National Era, Jan 15, 1852

An example of one of Greenwood's letters reporting about the political life in Washington DC Credit Newspaper.com

"Letters from the Capital," National Era, Feb 13, 1851

An example of one of Greenwood's letters reporting about the political life in Washington DC Credit Newspaper.com

"Greenwood Leaves," National Era, Dec 19, 1850

The National Era prints a review about the poems in Greenwood Leaves. The critic prefers the poems over the articles. The critic particularly praises her descriptive skills. Credit Newspaper.com

Greenwood's Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe (1854)

Greenwood gives a detailed account of her journey through Europe, including dates and tourist sights. She also includes accounts of dinner parties, for instance. She characterizes the people participating in social gatherings for the reader.She also…

"Military Appointment Politics," Trenton State Gazette, Apr 18, 1864

The president is announced to attend one of Greenwood's lecture. Credit Readex: America's Historical Newspapers

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Greenwood Lecture, National Anti-Slavery Standard, May 7, 1864

This small paragraph defends Greenwood as a lecturer who, apparently, has been criticized for talking about politics. Credit Readex: America's Historical Newspapers

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"Personal," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 26 1864

A report stating that Greenwood visited the Potomac army and is due to give four lectures to "large audiences". Credit Readex: America's Historical Newspapers

"Grace Greenwood," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 24, 1863

Grace Greenwood's work as a lecturer is praised. Credit Readex: America's Historical Newspapers

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"The Independent Lecture Course," Albany Evening Journal, Nov 26, 1862

An article announcing Greenwood's independent lecture about personal recollections from Washington, London, and Rome, referred to as "charming gossip." Meanwhile the paper emphasizes the artistic and literary content from Rome and London, while the…

Grace Greenwood's "An American Salon," Feb 1890

Greenwood introduces Gamaliel Bailey (editor of The National Era since 1847) and his wife as hosts of the respective salon to the reader. She touches upon senators and the abolition cause, social life in Washington by giving away stories about…

Greenwood Leaves, Second Series, 1852

Greenwood publishes her letters in a second series of her Greenwood Leaves.For instance, letter no. 12 is published in the National Era, Sept 23, 1852.The first series was published two years earlier, in 1850. Credit Archive.org

"The World's Newspapers," The Daily Picayune, Nov 25, 1894.

Greenwood, speaking from her travel experience and stays abroad, evaluates the French, Italian, and English press in comparison to the US-American. In the context of a changing press culture, she also indulges in a long speech against…

Letter from Grace Greenwood to Mr. White, April 12, 1850

Greenwood lets the addressee know that she is "more deeply interested in them [=distinguished people] by the representations of some common friends." Credit New York Public Library

Letter from Grace Greenwood to Mr. Welles, Dec 30, 1859

Greenwood informs the addressee about the whereabouts of people she knows such as Sarah J. Hale and Mrs. Browning. Credit New York Public Library

Letter from Grace Greenwood to John G. Whittier, Sept 9, 1849

Greenwood writes to Whittier about her Greenwood Leaves, the first series is about to be published by Ticknor & Fields. She laments that she is only allowed to include stories but no letters. Ticknor and Fields, however, offered her to publish a…

Excerpt from Grace Greenwood's "Sketch from Life" (1849)

Greenwood writes a sketch about Henry Elliot. The (auto)biographical account is published by Sara Josepha Hale in an edited collection called The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days (1849). Credit New York Public Library