Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Born	(1849-10-03)October 3, 1849 Flushing, New York, U.S.
Died	January 17, 1916(1916-01-17) (aged 66) New York, New York, U.S.
Pen name	Brunswick
Occupation	Author journalist critic editor
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	St. Thomas Hall
Genre	Novels
Relatives	Richard Watson Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder,William Henry Gilder (brothers)
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder (pen name,Brunswick; October 3, 1849 – January 17, 1916) was an American author,journalist, critic, and editor. She served as the regular correspondent and literary critic forChicago Tribune, and was also a correspondent for theBoston Saturday Evening Gazette,Boston Transcript,Philadelphia Record and Press, and various other papers. She was the author ofTaken by Siege;Autobiography of a Tomboy; andThe Tomboy at Work. Gilder was the editor ofRepresentative Poems of Living Poets (with her brother,Joseph Benson Gilder);Essays from the Critic (withHelen Gray Cone);Pen Portraits of Literary Women; andThe Heart of Youth, an anthology; as well as the owner and editor ofThe Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine.^[1][2]

Jeannette Leonard Gilder was born inFlushing, New York, October 3, 1849. She was a daughter of the clergymanWilliam Henry Gilder, who died when she was fifteen;^[3] and Jane (Nutt) Gilder.^[1][2] Her siblings included,Richard Watson Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder, andWilliam Henry Gilder.

Gilder was educated at St. Thomas Hall (woman's collegiate), conducted by her father;^[1][2] and studied at a boarding school inSouth Jersey for a year or two. Her schooling end at the age of fifteen.^[4]

Disliking the occupational options commonly open to women, she instead started working as a researcher for a historian during theCivil War before turning to the periodical industry.^[3] From 1869, she was connected with various newspapers inNewark andNew York. She began newspaper work in the editorial department of theNewark, New JerseyMorning Register, then conducted by her brother, Richard, and was also the Newark reporter forNew York Tribune.^[1] She was the New York correspondent of theTranscript;^[5] and also worked for theBoston Evening Transcript, where she used the pen name "Brunswick". Gilder became literary editor forScribner's Monthly before becoming a drama and music critic for theNew York Herald until 1880.^[1][2]

InTrenton, New Jersey, she was employed at thestate adjutant general's office; inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, at the US Mint; and in 1881, atNewark, New Jersey, she worked as a copyist of theregistrar of deeds.^[4] In that same year, she and her brother Richard co-foundedThe Critic, aliterary magazine, where she served as an editor from January 1881 to September 1906. Her editor role withThe Critic was shared with her brother Joseph. WhenThe Critic merged withPutnam's Monthly, she wrote a popular regular column for it called "The Lounger".^[3]

Gilder opposedwomen's right to vote. In an article titled "Why I Am Opposed to Woman Suffrage", printed in May 1894 inHarper's Bazaar, she argued that women were not strong enough to participate in politics. It would be "too public, too wearing, and too unfitted to the nature of women", she wrote. She further argued that women would find a "sufficiently engrossing 'sphere' in the very important work of training her children".^[6] Her novels includeThe Autobiography of a Tom-boy (1900) andThe Tom-boy at Work (1904).^[3]

Although she had no children of her own, Gilder took in four of her brother's children after their mother's death.^[3] She was a member of the Colony Club.^[1][2] Gilder died at her home in New York on January 17, 1916, at the age of 66, after a stroke brought on by a formation of a blood clot on the brain.^[7]

• Representative Poems by Living Persons (1886)
• Pen Portraits of Literary Women (1887)
• Essays from the Critic (1882)
• Authors at Home (1889)
• Why I am opposed to woman suffrage. Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, [1894?].
• The Autobiography of a Tom-boy. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co. (1900)
• The Tom-boy at Work (1904)

• Wilson, J. G.;Fiske, J., eds. (1900)."Gilder, William Henry" .Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Gilman, Daniel Coit; Peck, Harry Thurston; Colby, Frank Moore (1905).The new international encyclopaedia. Vol. 8 (Public domain ed.). Dodd, Mead.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Leonard, John W. (1914).Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 (Public domain ed.). American commonwealth Company.

• Goodier, Susan (March 15, 2012).No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement. University of Illinois Press.ISBN 978-0-252-09467-5.

• Works by Jeannette Leonard Gilder atProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Jeannette Leonard Gilder at theInternet Archive
• Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849-1916).
• Jeannette Leonard Gilder Papers.Schlesinger LibraryArchived May 9, 2012, at theWayback Machine, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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