Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849 - 1916), was a pioneer for United States women in journalism and in 1881 helped to co-found The Critic, a literary magazine that was merged with the third incarnation of Putnam's Magazine in 1906. She was connected from 1869 with various newspapers in Newark and New York, 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.
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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 Tomboy. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co. (1900)
- The Tomboy at Work (1904)
