The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gilder, Jeannette Leonard

GILDER, Jeannette Leonard, American editor: b. Flushing, N. Y., 3 Oct. 1849; d. New York, 17 Jan. 1916. Having entered journalism in 1869, she became editorially connected with Scribner's Monthly (the present Century Magazine), was a member of the New York Herald staff as literary editor and later musical and dramatic editor (1875-80) and in 1881 with her brother, J. B. Gilder (q.v.), founded and became editor of the Critic, a monthly review of literature, drama and art. The Critic was a pioneer in its field and among its contributors were many notable writers. Using the pen name “Brunswick,” Miss Gilder was for many years the New York correspondent of papers in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and other American cities. Her articles during this period made her well known as a journalist. She wrote many magazine articles, short stories and plays. At the time of her death she was the editor and proprietor of the Reader, a guide for book buyers. She was the editor of ‘Essays from the Critic’; ‘Representative Poems of Living Poets’; ‘Pen Portraits of Literary Women’ and ‘Authors at Home.’ She wrote ‘Taken by Siege’ (1886-96); ‘The Autobiography of a Tomboy’ (1900), and ‘The Tomboy at Work’ (1904). She also dramatized Sienkiewicz's ‘Quo Vadis.’