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Florence Finch Kelly
1858–1939
A pioneering newspaperwoman, novelist, and suffragist, this American writer built a long career at a time when journalism offered few openings for women. Her work ranges from fiction to memoir, all shaped by a sharp eye for public life and social change.
6 Audiobooks
With Hoops of Steel
by Florence Finch Kelly
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
by Florence Finch Kelly
Rhoda of the Underground
by Florence Finch Kelly
What America did : A record of achievement in the prosecution of the war
by Florence Finch Kelly
The Delafield Affair
by Florence Finch Kelly
The Fate of Felix Brand
by Florence Finch Kelly
About the author
Born in Girard, Illinois, on March 27, 1858, and raised partly in Kansas, she studied at the University of Kansas before moving into journalism. Over the course of a 56-year newspaper career, she worked in several parts of the United States and became known not only as a novelist and short-story writer, but also as a feminist and supporter of woman suffrage.
She is especially remembered for her long service as a book reviewer for The New York Times, where she worked from the early 1900s into the mid-1930s. Alongside that work, she published seven novels, many magazine pieces, and writing on literary, artistic, social, and economic subjects.
Late in life, she published her autobiography, Flowing Stream: The Story of Fifty-six Years in American Newspaper Life (1939), a fitting capstone to a career that traced the growth of American journalism and the expanding place of women within it. She died on December 17, 1939.