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#WomensHistoryMonth 2023 is coming to a close. I hope you enjoyed my daily tweets about #WomenWarReporters in the #FirstWorldWar as much as I did. You can re-read the short biographies in the thread below. Stay tuned for more research on fascinating women journalists during #WWI!
Andrée Viollis (1870-1950), France
Marylie Markovitch (1866-1926), France
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Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) was a photojournalist working for Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. During the #FirstWorldWar she photographed in France, Belgium and Italy, showing particular concern to document women’s war work ... /1
Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) was a photojournalist working for Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. During the #FirstWorldWar she photographed in France, Belgium and Italy, showing particular concern to document women’s war work ... /1
... and the destruction brought about by the war. In 1917 she was allowed by the Italian High Command to the frontline after the retreat at Caporetto 1917, where 275,000 Italian troops had been captured. In the autumn of 1918, when the Austro-Hungarian and the Italian ... /2
... armies again confronted each other, Kirtland was granted special access to the front and allowed to photograph Italian soldiers in the trenches. In 1919 Kirtland and her husband photographed the Versailles peace conference. ... /3
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Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) was an American explorer, geographer, journalist, photographer and lecturer who published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic Magazine @NatGeo . During the #FirstWorldWar, in 1916, ... /1
Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) was an American explorer, geographer, journalist, photographer and lecturer who published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic Magazine @NatGeo . During the #FirstWorldWar, in 1916, ... /1
... Adams went to France as a war correspondent for Harper’s Monthly Magazine. She was allowed to visit & photograph the French trenches in Lorraine during a French army tour & stayed for three months touring the region. She visited American hospitals & munition factories, ... /2
... where women were replacing the male workforce, and documented the impact of the war on the French civil population. Hidden in a cellar, she experienced the shelling of a French town by the Germans. ... /3
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Peggy Hull (1889-1967, b. Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough Deuell) was an American writer and journalist who covered the #FirstWorldWar and Second World War. In November 1918, when the war in Europe had ended, she became the first and ... /1
Peggy Hull (1889-1967, b. Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough Deuell) was an American writer and journalist who covered the #FirstWorldWar and Second World War. In November 1918, when the war in Europe had ended, she became the first and ... /1
... only American female war correspondent officially credentialed by the US War Department. Subsequently, she continued to report on the Russian Civil War & American troops in Siberia. In 1917 she had been denied official accreditation & went to France on her own expenses ... /2
... publishing her accounts in the Paris army edition and in the Chicago edition of the Chicago Tribune, in the El Paso Morning Times, and for the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Through personal connections, including General Pershing, she gained privileged access to an ... /3
