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Incluye el nombre: Ishbel Ross

Obras de Ishbel Ross

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Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Ross, Ishbella Margaret
Fecha de nacimiento
1895-12-15
Fecha de fallecimiento
1975-09-21
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Lugares de residencia
Skye, Scotland, UK
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ocupaciones
journalist
novelist
biographer
war correspondent
diarist
Organizaciones
New York Tribune
New York Herald Tribune
Biografía breve
Ishbel Ross was born on the Isle of Skye off the coast of Scotland, one of six children in an affluent family, and grew up in the Highlands. She attended Edinburgh Ladies College and the Tain Royal Academy. In 1916, she moved to Canada and joined the staff of the Toronto Daily News as a clerk filing clippings. In six weeks she rose to become a reporter with her own byline and a front-page story to her credit. She reported World War I news from the Balkan front in Salonika, Greece, and Serbia, keeping a diary of her experiences that was published after her death. By age 24 she was the first female reporter for the New York Tribune. Over a 15-year career there, her beats ranged from crime to the White House to women's suffrage. She often covered the same stories as her journalist husband, Bruce Rae of The New York Times, whom she married in 1922. In 1932, she published her first novel, Promenade Deck, and encouraged by its success, she turned to writing fiction and biographies, most of them on extraordinary American women. In 1936, she published the first formal history of female journalists, Ladies of the Press: The Story of Women in Journalism by an Insider. Other books included Crusades and Crinolines (1963); Charmers and Cranks: Twelve Famous American Women Who Defied Conventions (1965); Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: The Role of Women in American History (1969); The President's Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln (1973); and Power with Grace: The Life Story of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson (1975).

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First Woman Doctor, well written modern english
 
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VicRML | Jan 30, 2021 |
Ross has written a straightforward biography of an interesting, but not outstanding first lady. She was no Eleanor or Jackie, more of a Laura. The book includes the striking red dress she war (almost a flapper) holding the lead for a great looking dog. I bought it to fill out my collection of first lady biographies to go with my doll collection of the same.

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carterchristian1 | 2 reseñas más. | Jun 14, 2010 |
Published in 1962, the book was written by Ishbel Ross (b.1895). Ross was a journalist who worked on the New York Tribune, known then as the "best woman journalist" in New York. "She covered everything from dance marathons and the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue to the hottest crime stories of the era [including the Lindbergh kidnapping], and did in such clear, compact prose that her editors in time forgot all about her sex in choosing her assignments."

The biography is a model of her prose; additionally, Ross puts Grace Coolidge into context by giving the reader an excellent portrait of the times--the Roaring Twenties.… (más)
 
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labwriter | 2 reseñas más. | Jan 15, 2010 |
Summary: The story of Grace Coolidge, wife of President Clavin Coolidge.
 
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hgcslibrary | 2 reseñas más. | Nov 29, 2009 |

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Obras
23
Miembros
408
Popularidad
#59,622
Valoración
4.0
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
18
Idiomas
1

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