Jeannette Leonard Gilder

Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Born(1849-10-03)October 3, 1849
Flushing, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 17, 1916(1916-01-17) (aged 66)
New York, New York, U.S.
Pen nameBrunswick
Occupation
  • Author
  • journalist
  • critic
  • editor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSt. Thomas Hall
GenreNovels
RelativesRichard Watson Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, William Henry Gilder (brothers)
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder (pen name, Brunswick; October 3, 1849 – January 17, 1916) was an American author, journalist, critic, and editor. She served as the regular correspondent and literary critic for Chicago Tribune, and was also a correspondent for the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press, and various other papers. She was the author of Taken by Siege; Autobiography of a Tomboy; and The Tomboy at Work. Gilder was the editor of Representative Poems of Living Poets (with her brother, Joseph Benson Gilder); Essays from the Critic (with Helen Gray Cone); Pen Portraits of Literary Women; and The Heart of Youth, an anthology; as well as the owner and editor of The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. [1][2]