Martha Louise Rayne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Martha Louise Rayne

American journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1836

Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date of Death: 08-Aug-1911

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Martha Louise Rayne

  • Martha Louise Rayne (1836–1911) was an American who was an early woman journalist.
  • In addition to writing and editing several journals, she serialized short stories and poems in newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and the Los Angeles Herald.
  • In addition to newspaper work, she published a guidebook of Chicago, etiquette books, and several novels.
  • In 1886, she founded what may have been the first women's journalism school in the United States and four years later became a founding member and first vice president of the Michigan Woman's Press Association.
  • Rayne was posthumously inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2002.

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