Rebel Rose - Softcover

Rebel Rose; Life of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy

Mass market paperback. Zustand: Good. sixth printing. xi, [1], 240, [4] pages. The cover has some wear and soiling. Corner of pages 71/72 creased. Ishbel Ross (December 15, 1895 - September 21, 1975) was a Scottish-born American reporter, novelist, and nonfiction writer. In a writing career spanning six decades, Ross wrote numerous biographies of prominent women, with her best-known work being the first substantial history of women journalists. In the 1930s, Ross turned to writing novels. She left the newspaper the following year to concentrate on novel writing, publishing four more during her lifetime. At the instigation of the New-York Tribune's city editor, Stanley Walker, she also began writing nonfiction. Her first book, Ladies of the Press (1936), was the first formal history of women in journalism, examining the various roles women have played in print journalism, with a focus on notable journalists like Marguerite Martyn, Margaret Fuller, Nellie Bly, and Dorothy Dix. Ross identified more than 300 women editors and publishers working at papers throughout the United States. It is still considered "the classic work among the general histories" of the subject. Ross wrote some twenty nonfiction books, many of which were lives of famous women, ranging from the wives of American presidents to physician Elizabeth Blackwell, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Her other books addressed more general topics such as education for the blind and American taste. Her books were considered well-researched. Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813- October 1, 1864) was a renowned Confederate spy during the American Civil War. A socialite in Washington, D.C., during the period before the war, she moved in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers including John C. Calhoun and James Buchanan. Rose O'Neal Greenhow was adept at political intrigue and often involved in scandal. During her long Washington career she knew nine Presidents and was the intimate friend and advisor of one - James Buchanan. But is was the great South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun who shaped her political philosophy and influenced her to work heart and soul for the Confederacy. She used her connections to pass along key military information to the Confederacy at the start of the war. In early 1861, she was given control of a pro-Southern spy network in Washington, D.C., by her handler, Thomas Jordan, then a captain in the Confederate Army. She was credited by Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, with ensuring the South's victory at the First Battle of Bull Run in late July 1861. The government found that information was being leaked and the trail led to Rose Greenhow's residence. Greenhow was subject to house arrest; found to have continued her activities, in 1862 after an espionage hearing, she, with her daughter "Little Rose", was imprisoned for nearly five months in Washington, D.C. Deported to the Confederacy, she traveled to Richmond, Virginia, and began new tasks. Running the blockade, she sailed to Europe to represent the Confederacy on a diplomatic mission to France and Britain from 1863 to 1864. In 1863, she also wrote and published her memoir in London, which was popular in Britain. After her returning ship ran aground in 1864 off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, she drowned when her rowboat overturned as she tried to escape a Union gunboat. She was honored with a Confederate military funeral. Artikel-Nr. 85699

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