Exemplary Columns and Publications

"Our Woman's Department" by Gertrude Mossell, New York Freeman, Jan 9, 1886

"All Round the World," The Pine and Palm, July 13, 1861

An example of the Sentinel's gossip column "Chit-Chat," containing short entries reporting about multiple individuals of note (Jan 7, 1882)

Under the pseudonym Bert Islew, Lillian A. Lewis wrote the successful gossip column "They Say" for the Boston Advocate

An example of the column "Bridgeport Gleanings" in The Boston Advocate (Aug 18, 1886)

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Sep 4, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Sep 11, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Sep 18, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Sep 25, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Oct 9, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Oct 16, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Oct 23, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Oct 30, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Nov 6, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Nov 13, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Nov 27, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Dec 4, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Dec 11, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Dec 18, 1886

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Jan 1, 1887

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Jan 8, 1887

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Jan 15, 1887

Example of gossip column "They Say" by Bert Islew (Lillian A. Lewis), Jan 22, 1887

Report on Lilllian A. Lewis' career as a "society reporter" in Cleveland Gazette (via reprint from The New York Age, 1889)

Copy of American Negro, in which "Foreign Gossip" (p. 7) denotes international news. Page 2 contains a reprint from Harper's Bazar, concerning the private life of European Royals (Oct 25, 1890)

Example of gossip column "Personal and Pertinent" in The New York Age, here printed next to letter to the editor by a reader who asks for "Woman's Department" by Gertrude Mossell to be made a regular column

Example of "Social News"-column, published in The Woman's Era, the first national newspaper for Black women (1894)