Connell, Louise Fox, 1891-1984.

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Louise Fox Connell, journalist and editor, granddaughter of Sophia Bledsoe Herrick, and daughter of Hugh Francis and Virginia Herrick Fox, was born near Bayonne, N.J., in 1891 and was graduated from Barnard College (A.B., 1914). An adwriter for J. Walter Thompson (1915-1920), she later edited and wrote for the Delineator (1920-1923), Charm (1923-1925), and You (1936-1941), and was a freelance writer for Condé Nast publications (1941-1960). With Ruth Hawthorne, she wrote a play, The Queen Bee (1929). She edited and tried unsuccessfully to publish the memoirs of Black World War I hero, Eugene J. Bullard. She married author and screenwriter Richard Connell in 1919.

From the description of Papers, 1904-1986 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007473

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creatorOf Louise Fox Connell papers, 1904-1986 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Herrick family. Papers of the Herrick-Hunt family, 1913-1951 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Papers, 1904-1986 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
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associatedWith Bullard, Eugene Jacques, 1890-1961. person
associatedWith Connell, Richard Edward, 1893-1949. person
associatedWith Herrick family. family
associatedWith Herrick, Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe, 1837-1919. person
associatedWith Horton, Dabney. person
associatedWith Hunt, Virginia Lloyd Fox, 1888-1977. person
associatedWith Littledale, Clara Savage, 1891-1956. person
associatedWith Louise Fox Connell, 1891-1984 person
associatedWith Parsons, Edwin C. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
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African Americans
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
Women's periodicals
Occupation
Air pilots
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Playwrights
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Birth 1891

Death 1984

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