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 &ldquo;Brunswick,&rdquo; 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 &lsquo;Essays from the Critic&rsquo;; &lsquo;Representative Poems of Living Poets&rsquo;; &lsquo;Pen Portraits of Literary Women&rsquo; and &lsquo;Authors at Home.&rsquo; She wrote &lsquo;Taken by Siege&rsquo; (1886-96); &lsquo;The Autobiography of a Tomboy&rsquo; (1900), and &lsquo;The Tomboy at Work&rsquo; (1904). She also dramatized Sienkiewicz's &lsquo;Quo Vadis.&rsquo;