Jane Grey Swisshelm research files. 1994-2003.

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Jane Grey Swisshelm research files. 1994-2003.

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Photocopies of newspaper clippings, legal documents, and correspondence (1840-1894) from various archival repositories relating to journalist, newspaper publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate Jane Grey Swisshelm, as well as a card file calendar containing information about newspapers published by Swisshelm or with which she was associated in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. The material was compiled by historian Sylvia D. Hoffert in the course of researching her biography Jane Grey Swisshelm: an unconventional life (2004).

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Hoffert, Sylvia D., compiler.

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Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon, 1815-1884

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Swisshelm was a journalist, reformer, and women's rights advocate. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007366 Jane Grey Swisshelm was born in Pittsburgh in 1815. She worked as a teacher until her marriage to James Swisshelm. They built a home outside of Wilkinsburg and called it Swissvale. She had a talent for writing and worked for abolition and woomen'...