<p>H’s great aunt graduated from Cornell in 1894. She was the first woman on their newspaper staff, and had a career as a journalist. <a href=“http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/brown_hc.htm”>http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/brown_hc.htm</a></p>
<p>She won a prize for the biography she wrote of her mother-in-law, “Grandmother Brown’s Hundred Years,” which was a popular book back in the early 1930s and went through quite a few printings. I believe it has been used in some women’s studies courses. It is unique in its perspective: An early 20th-century “feminist” telling the life story of a 19th-century pioneer woman. (A fascinating book–I’ve recommended it on CC before.)</p>