Author: Newark Women
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H. Blanche Harris
1878-1956 (Thanks to George Robb who did much research on Harris). Blanche Harris was active in the suffrage movement in Newark. She was president of the Lincoln Branch, Women’s Political Union of Newark.…
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Elsa Rehmann
1886-1946 Sister of Antoinette Perrett. Famed landscape architect. Large biography linked below from the Cultural Landscape Foundation. 1908 Barnard Graduate. 1904 Newark High graduate. Lived at 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Bibliography
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Antoinette Rehmann Perrett
1880-1952 Garden photographer and magazine writer. Wrote for national publications. Sister of Elsa Rehmann. 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Graduated Newark High School in 1897. Bibliography “Pictoral Photography Work Gains Success for Woman” April…
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Josephine Lawrence
1889-1978 Newark Sunday Call Children’s and Household Editor. Newark News Women’s Page Editor and Weekly Columnist. Wrote over 100 children’s book with Stratemayer and over 30 adult books. She attended Barringer High School…
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Louise Scott
1927-1983 Founder of the Scott School of Beauty Culture. Born in the South, she came to New York from the South as a domestic & then to Newark where she opened her first…
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Dorothea H Wingert
1905-1990 Started writing for Newark newspapers in her teens. Wrote dozens of articles for a series on business and professional women in NJ in 1926-1927 when she was 21-22. In Jun 1926 placed…
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Brenda Estelle Ray Moryck
1894-1945 Black writer and social activist born in Newark. Worked with Newark Bureau of Charities. She published short stories, essays, and book reviews in national journals and magazines. Photo from Wellesley College. At…
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Florence Haines
1869-1955 Secretary of the New Jersey Women’s Political Union Charter Member of the Newark League of Women Voters New Jersey Assembly Representative from 1926-1931 Lifelong Resident of Newark. Graduated Newark High in 1888.…