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Biography of Rheta Childe DorrName: Rheta Childe DorrBirth Date: 1868 Death Date: 1948 Place of Birth: N/A Nationality: Gender: Female Occupations: journalist Rheta Childe Dorr Rheta Childe Dorr (1868-1948) was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work as a journalist was not widely accepted as proper woman's work. She fought hard for women's suffrage.As a child in Nebraska, Rheta Childe routinely disobeyed her parents. At age twelve she sneaked out of the house to attend a women's rights rally led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Her parents found out when the newspaper printed the names of those who had joined the National Woman Suffrage Association. She began working at the age of fifteen, over the objections of her parents, so that she could become independent and prove her industry. She was conservative by nature but became a rebel upon viewing a tombstone inscribed "Also Harriet, wife of the above."Self-ExpressionIn 1890 Childe went to New York City to study at the Art Students' League and decided that she would become …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…down until she found a chair. Mothers were unquestioningly better received than female war correspondents. Later Dorr covered the Women's Death Battalion in Russia and described an incident in which fellow soldiers broke into their barracks in order to rape them but were held off by the women at gunpoint. In addition to her many wartime articles, she also wrote A Soldier's Mother in France (1918) for women on the home front. Dorr, along with Louise Bryant, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Bessie Beattie, pioneered the way for women to become war correspondents. After spending many more years in Europe, and writing more books, including her autobiography, A Woman of Fifty, Dorr died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1948 at age eighty. Further Reading Dorr, Rheta Childe, A Woman of Fifty, Funk & Wagnalls, 1924.Edwards, Julia, Women of the World: The Great Foreign Correspondents, Ivy Books, 1988.Ross, Ishbel, Ladies of the Press, Harper, 1936. |