Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant

Henry, Susan

ISBN 10: 082651846X / ISBN 13: 9780826518460

Published by Vanderbilt Univ Pr, 2012

304 pages. 9.30x6.20x1.30 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # x-082651846X

Synopsis:

Anonymous in Their Own Namesrecounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the first half of the twentieth century. With her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped found and form the field of public relations. Ruth Hale helped her husband, Heywood Broun, become one of the most popular and influential newspaper columnists of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925 Jane Grant and her husband, Harold Ross, started the'New Yorker'; magazine. Yet these women's achievements have been invisible to countless authors who have written about their husbands. This invisibility is especially ironic given that all three were feminists who kept their birth names when they married as a sign of their equality with their husbands, then battled the government and societal norms to retain their names. Hale and Grant so believed in this cause that in 1921 they founded the Lucy Stone League to help other women keep their names, and Grant and Fleischman revived the league in 1950. This was the same year Grant and her second husband, William Harris, founded White Flower Farm, pioneering at that time and today one of the country's most celebrated commercial nurseries.<br><br><br>Despite strikingly different personalities, the three women were friends and lived in overlapping, immensely stimulating New York City circles. Susan Henry explores their pivotal roles in their husbands' extraordinary success and much more, including their problematic marriages and their strategies for overcoming barriers that thwarted many of their contemporaries.

About the Author: Susan Henry is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at California State University, Northridge, and a former editor of Journalism History.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. ...
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New