Sara Jane Lippincott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sara Jane Lippincott

American writer

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1823

Place of Birth: Pompey, New York, United States

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1904

Profession: writer, poet, lecturer, journalist, children's writer, feminist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Sara Jane Lippincott

  • Sara Jane Lippincott (pseudonym Grace Greenwood, September 23, 1823 – April 20, 1904) was an American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper founder.
  • One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries, she used her questions to advocate for social reform and women's rights. Her best known books for children are entitled, History of My Pets (1850); Recollections of My Childhood (1851); Stories of Many Lands (1866); Merrie England (1854); Bonnie Scotland (1861); Stories and Legends of Travel and History; Stories and Sights of France and Italy (1867).
  • The volumes for older readers are two series of collected prose writings, Greenwood Leaves (1849, 1851); Poems (1850); Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe (1852); A Forest Tragedy (1856); A Record of Five Years (1867); New Life in New Lands (1873); Victoria, Queen of England.
  • This last was published, in 1883, by Anderson & Allen of New York, and Sampson, Low & Marston, London.
  • Lippincott was connected as editor and contributor with various American magazines, as well as weekly and daily papers.
  • Lippincott also wrote much for London journals, especially for All the Year Round.
  • For several years, she lived almost wholly in Europe, for the benefit of her greatly impaired health and for the education of her daughter.
  • When she returned to the United States, she lived in Washington D.C.
  • and then New York.She was a prominent member of the literary society of New York along with Anne Lynch Botta, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Greeley, Richard Henry Stoddard, Andrew Carnegie, Mary Mapes Dodge, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Butler, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Delia Bacon, and Bayard Taylor, among others.

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