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Jane Burr
1881–1958
A journalist, poet, playwright, and novelist, this early-20th-century writer moved easily between fiction and public debate. Her work often touched on women’s independence, modern relationships, and social change.
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Letters of a Dakota Divorcee
by Jane Burr
About the author
Born Rosalind Mae Guggenheim in Cleburne, Texas, in December 1882, she wrote under the name Jane Burr. Sources describe her as a journalist, author, poet, and playwright, and note that she studied at Washington University in St. Louis before working for the St. Louis Star and the St. Louis Republic.
Jane Burr published novels and other writing across the 1910s and beyond, including City Dust, The Glorious Hope, and I Build My House. Archival and reference sources also connect her with progressive debates about marriage, divorce, birth control, and the position of women, and her papers include correspondence reflecting those interests.
She died in 1958. Although she is not widely known today, the surviving record suggests a versatile writer whose career linked literature, journalism, and social questions of her time.