Suffragist Grace Greenwood Autograph Letter Signed "About American Politics"

Grace Greenwood

Manuscripts & Autographs

Highly respected American journalist who consistently argued for the reform of women's roles and rights, also known as Sara Jane Lippincott. 1 page Autograph Letter Signed and dated March 5. Greenwood writes to another woman regarding her wish to feel "easier about American politics" and regarding her conviction that "art only flourishes in the air of peace." Measures 5.25x8.25". A striking letter that reveals how the state of national arts and individual creativity intertwine with personal freedom and political equality. In her own hand, Greenwood writes in part: "I finished the lecture at once - and Every line of it has pierced the listner [sic]. I am glad you are hopeful about American art. I should be if I could feel easier about American politics. But art only flourishes in the air of peace." She signs, "Grace Greenwood."

Greenwood, who was an influential journalist and the first woman on the New York Times payroll, published frequently in the widely read magazines of the day. Her poetry also received significant critical attention, and she became 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. By October 1849, Godey's Lady's Book listed her as an assistant editor and she was also editor of Godey's Dollar Newspaper. Throughout her work, Greenwood consistently argued for the reform of women's roles and rights. In 1852, she went to Europe on an assignment for the New York Times. Greenwood was the first woman reporter on the Times payroll. President Abraham Lincoln referred to her as "Grace Greenwood the Patriot". Women's rights became the focus of her speeches and writing for the New York Times, and she strongly advocated for Fanny Kemble's right to wear trousers, Susan B. Anthony's right to vote and all women's right to receive equal pay for equal work. In very good condition.

Item #14987

Price: $550.00