| LC control no. | n 84130524 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904 |
| Variant(s) | Clarke, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1823-1904 Author of Harry Brightside, 1823-1904 Harry Brightside, Author of, 1823-1904 Lippincott, L. K., Mrs., 1823-1904 Lippincott, L. K., Mr., 1823-1904 Lippincott, Sara Jane Clarke, 1823-1904 |
| Biography/History note | Individual was an abolitionist. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 18230923 |
| Death date | 19040420 |
| Place of birth | Pompey (N.Y. : Town) |
| Place of death | New Rochelle (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Antislavery movements |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Journalists |
| Found in | Her Bonnie Scotland, 1872: t.p. (Grace Greenwood) Ohio archaeological and historical publications, 1925: v. 34, p. 203 (Sarah J. Clarke) Her Nelly the gipsy girl, 1863: t.p. (Author of Harry Brightside) Lippincott, L.K. Old Wonder-eyes, 1857: t.p. (Mrs. L.K. Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)) Lippincott, L.K. Old Wonder-eyes, 1862: t.p. (Mr. and Mrs. L.K. Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)) LC data base, 8/29/84 (hdg.: Lippincott, Sara Jane (Clarke), 1823-1804; usage: Grace Greenwood) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass , accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Greenwood, Grace (Sarah Jane Clarke); poet, print journalist, abolitionist; born 23 September 1823 in Pompey, New York, United States; one of the first women in the United States to work as a newspaper reporter on a regular basis; an advocate for women's rights, the antislavery movement, and prison reform; published poems, children's stories, and political essays for the "Saturday Evening Post", "Harper's Monthly", "Ladies' Home Journal", and the "New York Times"; worked for the antislavery periodical "National Era", the "New York Tribune"; with her husband began "Little Pilgrim," one of the first magazines for children in the United States; went on a lecture tour to help raise money for the Union cause; wrote "Greenwood Leaves: A Collection of Sketches and Letters" (1850); "Poems" (1851); "The Dream" (1854); "Stories and Sketches: New Life in New Lands" (1873); died 20 April 1904 in New Rochelle, New York, United States) |
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