Mildred Adams Kenyon was a writer, editor, and translator. Using Adams as her professional name, she wrote feature articles for The New York Times, was a correspondent for The Economist (London) and authored several books. Her aunt was suffrage leader Gertrude Foster Brown, who was a general manager of The Woman Citizen.

The Black Women Oral History Project includes interviews with: Alice Dunnigan, who was chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Negro Press, the first black woman to be admitted to the White House and Congressional Press Galleries, and the first black reporter to travel with a U.S. president; Era Bell Thompson, who worked for Johnson Publishing Company and was a writer and editor at Ebony; and Dorothy West, who was the editor and publisher of two African American literary journals, Challenge and New Challenge, and wrote a weekly column for the Vineyard Gazette.

Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone Blackwell founded the Woman's Journal, and their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, was a long-time contributor and editor for the same. This collection includes correspondence about, writings for, and records of the Woman’s Journal. The collection has been digitized. Please visit the Blackwell Family research guide for more information about accessing the digitized materials.

Bromley was a journalist and writer. Also known as Dorothy Dunbar Walker, she used the pen name Stephen Ewing. She did publicity and editorial work for Henry Holt and Company (1921-1924), wrote freelance for magazines (1925-1952), and was a columnist and writer for the World-Telegram (1935-1937), Post (1938-1940), and Herald Tribune (1942-1952). As a freelance writer, she wrote extensively on issues such as marriage and divorce, birth control, sexual stereotyping, women and work, and women and the legal system. As the editor of the Sunday women's page of the New York Herald Tribune, she also wrote on Depression-era social welfare programs, child and domestic labor, juvenile delinquency, and criminal rehabilitation.

After graduating from Columbia University (M.S. in journalism and Pulitzer fellow, 1940), Brown worked for the New York Times as a city reporter and a Washington correspondent (1940-1942, 1946-1973). She also worked as a freelance writer and editor. During World War II she served as a press officer in the United States Naval Reserve (1942-1945). She was the author of Through the Opening Door: My Pioneering Journey in Mainstream Journalism.

Brownmiller was a journalist and author perhaps best known for her book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1975). She worked for Coronet magazine, the Albany Report, and Newsweek before resigning to aid the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in its voter registration drive in Mississippi in 1964. Her book reviews, essays, and articles appeared regularly in The New York Times, Newsday, the New York Daily News, Vogue, The Nation, and the Village Voice, among others. Brownmiller was active in the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s; she was a co-founder of the New York Radical Feminists. Her continuing interest in women's issues led her to help found Women Against Pornography in 1979.

Connell edited and wrote for the Delineator (1920-1923), Charm (1923-1925), and You (1936-1941) and was a freelance writer for Condé Nast publications (1941-1960). With Ruth Hawthorne, she wrote a play, The Queen Bee (1929). She edited and tried unsuccessfully to publish the memoirs of World War I hero Eugene J. Bullard.

Coyne graduated from Boston University and was the first woman appointed to a senior staff position at the Boston University News. She was a reporter for the Boston Herald in Europe from May 1944 to July 1945. Coyne was one of the few American women permitted to accompany troops as they landed in Normandy and fought their way into Germany. In October 1945 she returned to Europe, attending the Nuremberg trials before returning to the United States in January 1946.

From 1950 to 1961, Curtis was a reporter and society editor for the Columbus Citizen (later the Columbus Citizen Journal). From 1961-1987 she held various posts at The New York Times including reporter, women's news editor, family style editor, editor of the op-ed page, associate editor (she was the first woman to attain this rank), and weekly columnist. She wrote articles on a freelance basis for several publications, including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and Ladies' Home Journal.

Ehrenreich is a journalist, writer and social critic. Her essays, op-eds, and feature articles have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, In These Times, Lears, Life, Mother Jones, Ms., The Nation, New Republic, Newsday, New Statesman, The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Progressive, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Working Woman, and Z. She has served on the editorial boards of Social Policy, Ms., Mother Jones, Seven Days, Lear's, The New Press, and Culturefront and as a contributing editor to Harper's. She has written numerous books and book reviews.

Eno was a suffragist, lawyer, social reformer and journalist. She was chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party of Queens Borough (1912-1914); chairman of women workers of Queens Borough for the National Progressive Party; a member and corresponding secretary of the Woman's Press Club of New York City, a professional organization for women journalists, authors, and "those engaged in similar pursuits"; a member of the Portia Club of the City of New York; a member and officer of the Woman Citizens' League of New York State; publisher of The Queensboro Equality, a broadsheet advocating women's suffrage; and organizer of eighteen women's clubs in the Borough of Queens.

A journalist and New Delhi bureau chief for Time magazine, Marcia Gauger graduated from Swarthmore College. As a youth, she traveled through North and South America with her father, a chemical engineer. At Time she began as a researcher for the business section and later became a reporter, traveling widely in Europe, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, China, and India. In 1976 she taught journalism at American University in Cairo where she was caught in riots over high food prices. Appointed as head of the New Delhi bureau in 1979, Gauger was the only journalist inside the United States embassy in Islamabad when it was attacked by a Pakistani mob.

Gunther attended Radcliffe College and graduated from Barnard College in 1921. She married John Gunther, a writer, in 1927. The Gunthers lived in Europe from 1925 to 1936, and as the Vienna correspondent for the London News Chronicle, she covered the establishment of a fascist regime in Austria in 1934. She worked in association with her husband for many years. Their son John died shortly after graduating from Deerfield Academy, a story Gunther told in Death Be Not Proud. In 1949 she moved to Israel and continued to write articles and book reviews on nationalism, imperialism, and politics. She was also the author of Revolution in India (1944).

Feminist film critic and author Dorothy Clark "Molly" Haskell graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1961 and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before moving to New York City in 1962. In the mid-1960s, she worked as an interpreter for the French Film Office and wrote theater and movie reviews for the Village Voice. She later wrote a column, "Hers," for The New York Times and reviews and essays on film for New York, Playgirl, Ladies' Home Journal, Vogue, and Ms., as well as for many other magazines and newspapers. In 1974 Haskell wrote From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, one of the first books to study the depiction of women in films. Later books include Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir (1990), the chronicle of a mysterious and severe illness her husband suffered; Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Films and Feminists (1997), a collection of articles on film and interviews with actors; Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited (2009); My Brother, My Sister: Story of a Transformation (2013), an account of her sibling’s gender transition and Haskell's evolving feelings about it; and Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (2017).

Kirchwey was editor and publisher of The Nation from 1937 to 1955. In her early career she was a general reporter and Sunday feature writer for the New York Morning Telegraph, later joining the editorial staff of a New York magazine, Every Week. After a short stint with the Sunday Tribune in 1918, Kirchwey joined The Nation, where she spent the rest of her career.

An author and journalist, Lee (Radcliffe, A.B., 1917; A.M., 1920) went to France in 1917 with the Massachusetts General Hospital Unit, transferred to the U.S. Air Service in Paris, and then was with the Army of Occupation in Germany until Oct. 1919. She wrote a controversial book about World War I, which was originally titled The Farce but renamed It’s a Great War when it was finally published in 1929. A freelance writer for The New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly, Lee was active in Greek war relief during World War II.

Littledale became the first woman reporter at the New York Evening Post in 1913. In 1914 she became head of the press section of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and from 1915 to 1919 she worked as associate editor and war correspondent from France for Good Housekeeping. She went on to be the first editor of Parents magazine (1926-1956).

Miller was an economist, author, and journalist. She was the American editorial representative of The Economist (1943-1950), a Washington Bureau correspondent for Newsweek (1950-1952), a staff writer for the President's Commission on the Status of Women (1960-1962), and president of the Women's National Press Club (1955-1956).

Early in her career, Nash was a weekend movie reviewer and reporter for the San Antonio Evening News. She was also a freelance writer, using the name Baldwin Cowan, for the Houston Chronicle and other papers. She worked for a short time for the United Press but was fired when they discovered she was a woman. Nash was an Associated Press reporter for 27 years and one of the first women accredited as a U.S. Army war correspondent during WWII. She served as president of the Women's National Press Club from 1947 to 1948.

The Caucus was created in 1972 to fight discrimination against women at The New York Times. A class action suit, Boylan v. New York Times, ended in a 1978 out-of-court settlement in the women's favor.

Jane O'Reilly published her first article in 1960 in The New Republic. Since then she has written on a wide range of subjects, including family issues, the women's movement, media, money, and politics, for national magazines. Many of her writings focus on conservative and liberal issues as they relate to culture, society, and politics. In 1972, O’Reilly, Gloria Steinem, and others co-founded Ms. magazine. O'Reilly went on to write articles for Ms. and for other magazines and newspapers, including Time magazine, The New York Times, New York magazine, Glamour, McCall's, Atlantic Monthly, and Vogue. In 1975, she moved to Washington, D.C., to write about women in Washington for a United Features syndicated column in the Washington Star.

Robertson was a copy editor and reporter for Stars & Stripes, covering post-WWII occupation and reconstruction efforts. Robertson joined The New York Times in 1955, first as a women's news reporter, then as a general assignments correspondent covering culture, politics, and government along with daily news in New York, Washington, D.C., and Paris. She is the author of The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times, and recipient of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for "Toxic Shock," a New York Times Magazine account of her own experience with toxic shock syndrome.

This collection has been digitized. Visit the finding aid for the Dorothy West collection (Call#: MC 676) for access to the digitized content.
West was a novelist and Harlem Renaissance writer. She was the editor and publisher of two African American literary journals, Challenge and New Challenge, and wrote a weekly column for the Vineyard Gazette.

The first woman journalist in Boston, White used the pseudonym Penelope Penfeather. As special reporter for the Boston Post in 1870, she covered women’s suffrage conventions and related activities. She continued to report on women's rights activities and local news and advised on fashion and household problems for the Boston Herald until shortly before her death.

Willis wrote widely about feminist and radical left politics, rock music, and cultural trends. She was the first rock columnist for the New Yorker (1968-1975). In the 1970s she was a contributing editor at Ms. and contributing editor and columnist at Rolling Stone. From 1979-1990 she was a staff writer, then senior editor, at the Village Voice. Willis taught journalism at New York University and in 1995 created and directed a master’s program there in Cultural Reporting and Criticism.

This oral history project was sponsored by the Washington Press Club Foundation. The collection includes interview transcripts of women who have made significant contributions to society through careers in journalism since the 1920s. Included are Ruth Cowan Nash, Eileen Shanahan, and Ellen Goodman.