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                            Introduction
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder (pen name, Brunswick; October 3, 1849 -
January 17, 1916) was an American author, journalist, critic, and
editor. She served as the regular correspondent and literary critic
for 'Chicago Tribune', and was also a correspondent for the 'Boston
Saturday Evening Gazette', 'Boston Transcript', 'Philadelphia Record
and Press', and various other papers. She was the author of 'Taken by
Siege'; 'Autobiography of a Tomboy'; and 'The Tomboy at Work'. Gilder
was the editor of 'Representative Poems of Living Poets' (with her
brother, Joseph Benson Gilder); 'Essays from the Critic' (with Helen
Gray Cone); 'Pen Portraits of Literary Women'; and 'The Heart of
Youth, an anthology'; as well as the owner and editor of 'The Reader:
An Illustrated Monthly Magazine'.


                     Early years and education
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder was born in Flushing, New York, October 3,
1849. She was a daughter of the clergyman William Henry Gilder, who
died when she was fifteen; and Jane (Nutt) Gilder. Her siblings
included, Richard Watson Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, and William
Henry Gilder.

Gilder was educated at St. Thomas Hall (woman's collegiate), conducted
by her father; and studied at a boarding school in South Jersey for a
year or two. Her schooling end at the age of fifteen.


                               Career
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Disliking the occupational options commonly open to women, she instead
started working as a researcher for a historian during the Civil War
before turning to the periodical industry. From 1869, she was
connected with various newspapers in Newark and New York. She began
newspaper work in the editorial department of the Newark, New Jersey
'Morning Register', then conducted by her brother, Richard, and was
also the Newark reporter for 'New York Tribune'. She was the New York
correspondent of the 'Transcript'; and also worked for the 'Boston
Evening Transcript', where she used the pen name "Brunswick".  Gilder
became literary editor for 'Scribner's Monthly' before becoming a
drama and music critic for the 'New York Herald' until 1880.

In Trenton, New Jersey, she was employed at the state adjutant
general's office; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the US Mint; and
in 1881, at Newark, New Jersey, she worked as a copyist of the
registrar of deeds. In that same year, she and her brother Richard
co-founded 'The Critic', a literary magazine, where she served as an
editor from January 1881 to September 1906. Her editor role with 'The
Critic' was shared with her brother Joseph. When 'The Critic' merged
with 'Putnam's Monthly', she wrote a popular regular column for it
called "The Lounger".

Gilder opposed women's right to vote. In an article titled "Why I Am
Opposed to Woman Suffrage", printed in May 1894 in 'Harper's Bazaar',
she argued that women were not strong enough to participate in
politics. It would be "too public, too wearing, and too unfitted to
the nature of women", she wrote. She further argued that women would
find a "sufficiently engrossing 'sphere' in the very important work of
training her children". Her novels include 'The Autobiography of a
Tom-boy' (1900) and 'The Tom-boy at Work' (1904).


                           Personal life
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Although she had no children of her own, Gilder took in four of her
brother's children after their mother's death. She was a member of the
Colony Club. Gilder died at her home in New York on January 17, 1916,
at the age of 66, after a stroke brought on by a formation of a blood
clot on the brain.


                           Selected works
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* 'Representative Poems by Living Persons' (1886)
* 'Pen Portraits of Literary Women' (1887)
* 'Essays from the Critic' (1882)
* 'Authors at Home' (1889)
* 'Why I am opposed to woman suffrage.' Boston: Massachusetts
Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, [1894?].
* 'The Autobiography of a Tom-boy.' New York: Doubleday, Page, &
Co. (1900)
* 'The Tom-boy at Work' (1904)


                           External links
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20041225141902/http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/people_gilder.html
Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849-1916).]
* [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00284 Jeannette Leonard
Gilder Papers.][http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library] ,
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.


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