A Woman of Fifty
Rheta Childe Dorr
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Rheta Louise Childe Dorr (1868–1948) was an American journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist. Dorr is best remembered as one of the leading female muckraking journalists of the Progressive era and as the first editor of the influential newspaper, The Suffragist. In 1922 Dorr assisted Anna Vyrubova with the writing of her memoir, My Memories of the Russian Court. Thereafter Dorr wrote her own memoir, A Woman of Fifty, published in 1924. Dorr moved from her autobiography to a biography of Susan B. Anthony, published in 1928, and completed her publishing activity in 1929 with a tome on the question of prohibition.

2nd edition.  Excellent condition.