page_title: Pearl Rivers
hierarchical_section_title: Pearl Rivers
caption_attribution_description: English: Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (1849 - 1896), United States journalist and poet
context_page_description: Pearl Rivers was a 19th-century American journalist and poet, and the first female editor of a major
  American newspaper. After having been the literary editor of the New Orleans Times Picayune, became the owner and publisher 1876 when her elderly husband died. In 1880 she took over as managing editor, where she continued until her death in 1896.
  She took the name from the Pearl River, which was located near her home in Mississippi. She did not let traditional norms hold her back from doing what she wished, and most of her newspaper work was pursued against the wishes of her family and society.
context_section_description: Pearl Rivers (pen name of Eliza Jane Nicholson; formerly Holbrook; née Poitevent; March 11, 1843 – February 15, 1896) was a 19th-century American journalist and poet, and the first female editor of a major 
  American newspaper. After having been the literary editor of the New Orleans Times Picayune, became the owner  and publisher 1876 when her elderly husband died. In 1880 she took over as managing editor, where she continued until her death in 1896.
  She took the name from the Pearl River, which was located near her home in Mississippi. She did not let traditional norms hold her back from doing what she wished, and most of her newspaper work was pursued against the wishes of her family and society.
caption: Eliza J. Nicholson
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