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- Collection: Gossip Columns and Columnists
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"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.
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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.
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Newspaper.com
Tags: gossip--published, press coverage
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".
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Newspaper.com
Tags: gossip--published, press coverage
"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
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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
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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.
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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…
Tags: gossip--published, Rome, travel/touring
"Military Appointment Politics," Trenton State Gazette, Apr 18, 1864
The president is announced to attend one of Greenwood's lecture.
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
Tags: Civil War
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.
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
Tags: Civil War
"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".
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
Tags: Civil War, travel/touring
"Grace Greenwood," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 24, 1863
Grace Greenwood's work as a lecturer is praised.
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
Tags: Civil War
"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…
Tags: gossip--published, press coverage
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.
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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."
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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.
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New York Public Library
Tags: social capital, travel/touring
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).
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New York Public Library
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