Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
Women Journalists
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Background & Reference Works


Beasley Maurine H., and Sheila J. Gibbons. Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism. Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1993.

Brown, Karen Fitzgerald. "The Black Press of Tennessee: 1865-1980." Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1982.

Marzolf, Marion. "The Literature of Women in Journalism History: A Supplement." Journalism History 3 (1976): 116-20.

Marzolf, Marion, Ramona R. Rush, and Darlene Stern, comps. "The Literature of Women in Journalism History." Journalism History 1 (1974): 117-28.

Marzolf, Marion. Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists. New York: Hastings House, 1977.

Marzolf, Marion. "The Woman Journalist: Colonial Printer to City Desk." Journalism History 1 (1974): 100-07, 146.

Mills, Kay. A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Pages. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1988. Reprinted, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Sloan, Wm. David, comp. American Journalism History: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989.


Biographical Index


  • Armstrong, Zella
  • Boyd, Pattie
  • Dix, Dorothy
  • Douglas, Mary Stahlman
  • Dromgoole, Will Allen
  • Golden, Ruth S.
  • Kenyon, Nellie
  • Susong, Edith O'Keefe
  • Templeton, Lucy Curtis
  • Wells, Ida B.


    Books and Articles


    Adamson, June N. "From Bulletin to Broadside: A History of By-Authority Journalism in Oak Ridge, Tennessee." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38 (Winter 1979): 479-93.
    Fran Gates, who became editor of the Oak Ridge Journal in 1944, is featured.

    ------. "Selected Women in Tennessee Newspaper Journalism." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, 1971.

    Mooney, Jack D., ed. A History of Tennessee Newspapers. [Knoxville, Tenn.]: Tennessee Press Association, c1996.


    Manuscripts/SpecialCollections

    Major Collections Covering Women & Journalism

    National Women and Media Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-Columbia.

    Collections focusing on Tennessee women

    Douglas, Mary Stahlman. Papers, 1895-1979. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
    Online description: http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/techsvs/manud/92-090.htm.


    Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography

    Ken Middleton kmiddlet@frank.mtsu.edu
    Todd Library, Middle Tennessee State University