Mar
15
Jenny June read by Rita Henley Jensen (by OpeningTheWay)
In 1868, signing only her initials, she nervily applied for a ticket to the dinner being tendered by the Press Club of New York at Delmonico’s honoring Charles Dickens as he completed his tour of the country. She was found out and rejected; no women need apply. She responded by convening a number of female colleagues and forming a plan to give women a club of their own, the first of its kind.
In mid-career, this pioneer was asked why more women had not followed her into daily journalism. She replied:
Sex alone, not at all capacity. There are plenty of women who would be preferred as workers to men, if they were not women…
