Jane Grant

Jane Grant, actually Jeanette Cole ( * 1892 in Joplin, Missouri; † in Litchfield, Connecticut, 1972) was an American journalist and feminist and founder of the New York Newspaper Women's Club and co-founder of the magazine The New Yorker.

Life

Jeanette Cole came from a wealthy family and was trained as a singer. As a 16 -year-old she moved to New York City and took the name Jane Grant. In order to finance their livelihood, they wrote some articles for The New York Times. The critic Alexander Woollcott and with the writer Janet Flanner joined them soon a close friendship.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Grant came up with a Broadway group to France, where she joined the American Red Cross in Paris and became involved in the troop entertainment. Here she met her first husband, Harold Ross journalists (1892-1951), and married him in May 1919. At the same time led Woollcott them in the literary circle in the Algonquin Hotel, called the Algonquin Round Table, a loose group of journalists, writers and actors, a.

In 1921, Grant founded together with Ruth Hale, the women's rights organization Lucy Stone League, which aimed, among other things, that women after marriage can retain their birth name. Your contributions to feminist thought formed a central bridge between the feminism of the 1920s and the 1970s. Your marriage failed and was divorced in 1928. As a journalist for The New York Times she was far ahead in terms of women's issues of their time and thus justified its later success. Jane Grant played a crucial role in the development of the New Yorker magazine.

In 1939 she married William B. Harris ( 1890-1981 ), the editor of Fortune magazine. In the following years took their activities in the women's movement continues to increase, leading to a reactivation of the Lucy Stone League. Your work for the rights of women, she continued in the movements of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the International Council of Women (ICW ) in the 1960s.

Jane Grant died of a heart attack on her country estate in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her husband established a foundation at the University of Oregon to allow young women to study. After his death in 1981 he bequeathed to the foundation that bears the name of his late wife, 3.5 million U.S. dollars.