Sara Jane Lippincott
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Sara Jane Lippincott was an American writer, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper founder. One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries, she used her questions
Sara Jane Lippincott ("Grace Greenwood"), circa 1850
Lippincott's house in New Brighton
"The Leap from the Long Bridge—An Incident at Washington," published in the December 13, 1850 issue of The Liberator abolitionist paper, centers an 1833 incident involving the slave catcher Jilson Dove that was reported by Benjamin Lundy
The Little Pilgrim masthead, 1855
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American writer, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Sara Jane Lippincott
…In 1844, she drew national attention, at age 21, with a poem published in the New York Mirror, then under the editorship of George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis. Soon after, she was writing for the Home Journal and other literary magazines of the day, under both her given name and her pseudonym. In the February…
Portrait of Willis c. mid-1850s
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.