Part Two - Women Journalists and Writers in The Old South
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
Summary
Forty years after Sarah Cooper dreamed of becoming an editor and created her homemade magazine in Virginia, Nannie Grant and Paulina Warinner, two friends also from Virginia, handwrote their own periodical. Like Cooper, Grant and Warinner fashioned themselves important editors, taking care to pen by hand not one but four different magazines, entitled “The Ark,” “The Lone Star,” “The Casket,” and “The Wreath.” Each magazine included a hand-drawn masthead and incorporated handwritten short stories, editorials, advertisements, biographies, and poems. “The Ark” was available for “$5.00 Confederate.” While momentous events had passed in the four decades between the time Cooper rendered her journal and the years in which Grant and Warinner made theirs, including the Civil War and the end of slavery, young women still dreamed of lives as authors and editors.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011