White Cottage
New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
Home of Grace Greenwood (Sara J. Clarke Lippincott, 1823-1904), pioneer woman correspondent, poetess and authoress. While living here during the mid-19th Century, she wrote many of her popular juvenile stories.
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
This cottage was the home of Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (1823–1904), who wrote under the pen name Grace Greenwood and became one of the first women to earn a living as a newspaper correspondent in America. From here in the mid-19th century she produced poetry, essays, and the popular children's stories that made her a household name. She later broke ground as a Washington correspondent, reporting from the halls of national power when few women did.
Why it matters
Grace Greenwood helped open professional journalism and authorship to American women, proving that a woman could command a national readership and a press credential in her own right.
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