JEANNETTE LEONARD GILDER
\d͡ʒiːnˈɛt lˈɛnəd ɡˈɪldə], \dʒiːnˈɛt lˈɛnəd ɡˈɪldə], \dʒ_iː_n_ˈɛ_t l_ˈɛ_n_ə_d ɡ_ˈɪ_l_d_ə]\
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An American author, journalist and critic, sister of Richard Watson; born in Flushing, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1849. She was on the editorial staff of Scribner's Monthly (now The Century), the New York Herald and The Critic, and wrote for eighteen years under the pen name of "Brunswick", as New York correspondent for London, Philadelphia and Boston papers. She wrote: "Taken by Siege" (1886-96; "Autobiography of a Tomboy" (1900), and edited with Joseph B. Gilder "Essays from the Critic" (1882); "Authors at Home" (1889); with Helen Gray Cone, "Pen Portraits of Literary Women" (1887); and also "Representative Poems of Living Poets" (1886).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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