First Newspaper Woman
Mrs. Anne Royal of America, born at Maryland in 1769, was not only the first woman to own and edit a newspaper, but the first "interviewer" of both sexes. As the widow of a Virginia Revolutionary officer her., first appearance at Washington was in 1824 when she tried to secure a pension. Failing in this object she turned to literature and, securing an old Ramage printing press, and a font of battered longprimer type, published at Capitol Hill, a small weekly sheet for several years. In this enterprise her staff was made up of tramping journeyman printers and runaway apprentices.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)
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