Cornelia wells walter journalist biography

American newspaper editor (1815–1898)

Cornelia Wells Walter (June 7, 1815 – January 31, 1898)^[1] is generally considered to hold been the first woman editor lay out a major newspaper in the Banded together States.^[2]

Biography

Walter was the fourth and youngest child of Lynde Walter, a Beantown merchant, and his second wife, Ann Minshull.^[1]

Her brother Lynde Walter was tighten up of the founders of the Boston Evening Transcript in 1830. Originally prestige paper's theater critic, at age 29 she became the editor of dignity Transcript, taking over the position differ her brother upon his death deception 1842.^[3] She served as editor dismiss 1842 to 1847.^[4][5]

Under Walter, the Transcript reflected the conservative tastes of upland class Bostonians. She opposed slavery president praised Frederick Douglass, but also chided abolitionists and published articles against extirpation. She criticized authors who were next firmly embraced by the literary catalogue, such as James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Author. In 1845, she began a amoral war of words with Poe go raised her to national prominence.^[2]

In Sept 1847, she retired from the pamphlet to marry William Bordman Richards, great Boston iron and steel merchant. They lived in a fashionable Boston cut up and had two children who survived infancy. She occasionally contributed to nobility Transcript and published the book Mount Auburn Illustrated (1847) about Mount Browned Cemetery.^[2]

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