page_title: Jeannette Leonard Gilder
section_title: Early years and education
hierarchical_section_title: Jeannette Leonard Gilder / Early years and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeannette Leonard Gilder as a young girl
context_page_description: Jeannette Leonard Gilder was an American author, journalist, critic, and editor. She served as the regular correspondent and literary critic for Chicago Tribune, and was also a correspondent for the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press, and various other papers. She was the author of Taken by Siege; Autobiography of a Tomboy; and The Tomboy at Work. Gilder was the editor of Representative Poems of Living Poets; Essays from the Critic; Pen Portraits of Literary Women; and The Heart of Youth, an anthology; as well as the owner and editor of The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine.
context_section_description: Jeannette Leonard Gilder was born in Flushing, New York, October 3, 1849. She was a daughter of the clergyman William Henry Gilder, who died when she was fifteen; and Jane (Nutt) Glider. Her siblings included, Richard Watson Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, and William Henry Gilder.
  Gilder was educated at St. Thomas Hall (woman's collegiate), conducted by her father; and studied at a boarding school in Southern New Jersey for a year or two. Her schooling end at the age of fifteen.
caption: Jeannette Leonard Gilder as a young girl
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