Rheta Childe Dorr
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Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) was an American author, journalist (muckraker) and social worker.
[edit] Biography
She was born at Omaha, Nebraska in 1868. After studying for two years at the University of Nebraska she became editor of the woman's department of the New York Evening Post (1902–1906), and a member of the staff of Hampton's Magazine (1908–1911). She made special investigations as a worker in factories, mills, and department stores in order to study the labor conditions for women and children. She was war correspondent for a syndicate of 21 newspapers during 1917–1918, and became foreign correspondent with headquarters at Prague in 1920. She died in 1948.
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[edit] Works
- What Eight Million Women Want (1910)
- Inside the Russian Revolution (1917)
- The Soldier's Mother in France (1918)
- Czecho-Slovakia (1921)
- Drink: Coercion or Control? (1929)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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