Jane Grant

Jane Grant (29 ga Mayu, 1892 - 16 ga Maris, 1972) 'ɗan jarida ce ta New York City wacce ta kafa mujallar The New Yorker tare da mijinta na farko, Harold Ross .

 Rayuwa da aiki 
An haifi Jane Grant Jeanette Cole Grant a Joplin, Missouri, kuma ta girma ta tafi makaranta a Girard, Kansas. Grant da farko an horar da shi don zama mai ba da murya. Ta zo Birnin New York tana da shekara 16 don ci gaba da waka, amma ta shiga aikin jarida lokacin da ta shiga ma'aikatan The New York Times a sashen al'umma. Ba da daɗewa ba ta shiga cikin ɗakin gari a matsayin mai ba da rahoto kuma ta zama abokiyar kusa da mai sukar Alexander Woollcott . A matsayinta na 'yar jarida ga Times (mai ba da rahoto na mace na farko) [ma'anar da ake buƙata], ta rufe batutuwan mata, ta tambayi jama'a game da ra'ayoyinsu game da matsayin mata da kuma yin hira da mata waɗanda suka yi aiki a cikin ayyukan maza na al'ada. Ta rubuta wa Times na tsawon shekaru 15.

A lokacin yakin duniya na, Grant, wacce ita ma ta kasance mai basira da kuma mai rawa, ta yi magana game da hanyar ta zuwa jirgin ruwa zuwa Faransa ta hanyar shiga nishaɗi tare da YMCA. Ta shiga kungiyar Red Cross na Amurka kuma ta yi wa sojoji nishaɗi yayin wasan kwaikwayo a Paris da kuma sansanoni. A Faransa, Woollcott ta gabatar da ita ga membobin "Vicious Circle" na gaba, gami da Harold Ross . Grant da Ross sun yi aure a shekarar 1920. "Vicious Circle" daga baya ya zama Algonquin Round Table . "Jane C. Grant papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries". Ta koma Times bayan yakin.

A cikin 1921, Grant ta shiga Lucy Stone League">Lucy Stone League, wanda aka keɓe, a cikin hanyar Lucy Stone, don taimakawa mata su riƙe sunayensu na budurwa bayan aure, kamar yadda Grant ya yi bayan aurenta biyu.[1] A cikin 1950, Grant da tsoffin mambobi 22 sun sake fara Lucy Stone League; taron farko ya kasance a ranar 22 ga Maris 1950 a Birnin New York. A wannan shekarar Grant ta lashe yarjejeniyar Ofishin Ƙididdigar cewa mace mai aure za ta iya amfani da sunan haihuwarta a matsayin hukuma ko ainihin sunanta a cikin ƙidayar. (The New York Times, 10 Afrilu 1950). [2]

Grant na ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa kungiyar New York Newspaper Women's Club kuma ta yi aiki a cikin kwamitin daraktocinta na farko bayan an kafa ta a 1924. [1]

Tare da goyon bayan Raoul Fleischmann, Grant da Ross sun kafa The New Yorker a 1925. A matsayinsa na edita, an yaba wa Ross da jagorantar nasarar mujallar, duk da haka an nakalto Ross yana cewa mujallar ba za ta kasance nasara ba tare da gudummawar Jane ba. Grant ya kasance babban mai ba da shawara kan kasuwanci da abun ciki ga mujallar kuma da farko ya taimaka wajen tara saka hannun jari don fara mujallar. Ta kawo abokinta Janet Flanner cikin mujallar mujallar ta wakilan, ta ba da izini ga wasikar ta daga shafi na Paris. Ana ci gaba da buga fasalin a yau, kodayake yanzu ya haɗa da wasu birane da yawa. Grant daga baya ya samar da wani lamari na musamman na kasashen waje ga sojojin a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu."Jane C. Grant papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries".

Ross da Grant sun sake aure a 1929 bayan shekaru tara na aure.

A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, Grant ya rubuta don mujallu da yawa, ciki har da Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine da The New Yorker . "Jane C. Grant papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries". Grant ya rubuta Confession of a Feminist for American Mercury a cikin 1943. A cikin rubutun, ta bayyana kwarewar kasancewa mai fafutukar mata, tana ba da labarin aikinta na farko a matsayin mai ba da rahoto a tsakanin maza don Times da kuma bincika dokoki da ayyuka masu nuna bambanci. Grant ya ci gaba da aiki a cikin abubuwan mata, ya sake farfado da Lucy Stone League da fadada manufarta. Ta ci gaba da aiki don kare hakkin mata a cikin shekarun 1960, tana ba da shawara don aiwatar da Kwaskwarimar Daidaitaccen Hakki da kuma aiki a Majalisar Mata ta Kasa.  [<span title="info about the ERA and NCW? (April 2013)">citation needed</span>]

A shekara ta 1939, ta auri William B. Harris, editan Mujallar Fortune . Ita da Harris sun ƙaura daga Manhattan zuwa Litchfield, Connecticut . Ma'auratan sun kafa White Flower Farm daga wani shago a kan dukiyarsu. A cikin shekarun 1950, sun fara cinikin oda na wasika mai nasara don aikin lambu na gida.

A shekara ta 1968, Grant ta wallafa wani labari game da rayuwarta mai taken Ross, The New Yorker and Me (Reynal and Co., 1968 New York City). Mijinta na biyu, William Harris, ya ƙarfafa ta ta yi hakan, kuma daga ƙarshe ya keɓe littafin a gare shi.

Grant ta mutu a shekara ta 1972 a gonar Connecticut da ta raba tare da mijinta. Harris ya sayar da ɗakin yara ga Eliot Wadsworth a shekarar 1976.

 Kyauta 
A shekara ta 1974, Jami'ar Oregon ta tunkari Harris don bayar da gudummawa. Bayan ziyarar da ya kai makarantar, ya amince da tallafawa cibiyar da ke gudanar da bincike kan mata da Nazarin jinsi. A shekara ta 1976, Harris ta ba da gudummawar takardun Jane Grant ga jami'ar."Jane C. Grant papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries". Bayan mutuwarsa a 1981, ya bar dala miliyan 3.5 a cikin sunan matarsa don kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Mata a cikin Al'umma.

Actress Martha Plimpton ce ta nuna Grant a fim din 1994 Mrs. Parker da Vicious Circle . 

 Bayanan littattafai 

 Ross, The New Yorker, da Ni (New York: Reynal, 1968 (ASIN B000K01216)).
 Confession na Mata. The American Mercury, Vol. LVII, No. 240, Disamba, 1943, shafi na 684-691. 
 Na ga Abin da zan iya (labari da ba a buga ba game da tafiye-tafiyen da ta yi a Tarayyar Soviet, wanda aka gudanar a Jami'ar Oregon) 

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