Kate Field
Dublin Core
Title
Kate Field
Subject
Journalists/Writers
Italy--Rome
Relationships--Networks
Description
Kate Field is a US American journalist who lives in Rome at the same time as Charlotte Cushman. She has been familiar with Cushman even as a child, as her mother Eliza Riddle Field played with Charlotte Cushman in Romeo and Juliet.
Field is born in St. Louis, where she is growing up with Wayman Crow's daughters. Some of her letters from the 1860s to Emma Crow [Cushman] are included in the collection.
Initially training as a singer, Field soon focusses on her career as writer and becomes a correspondent for the Boston Courier, New York Tribune, and New Orleans Picayune. Eventually, she starts her own paper called Kate Field's Washington.
Field is born in St. Louis, where she is growing up with Wayman Crow's daughters. Some of her letters from the 1860s to Emma Crow [Cushman] are included in the collection.
Initially training as a singer, Field soon focusses on her career as writer and becomes a correspondent for the Boston Courier, New York Tribune, and New Orleans Picayune. Eventually, she starts her own paper called Kate Field's Washington.
Type
Person
Reference
Person Item Type Metadata
Birth Date
1838
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri
Death Date
1896
Nationality
US-American
Occupation
journalist
Secondary Texts: Comments
"She often used her columns to promote her friends, including the sculptor [Harriet Hosmer] who had made her laugh so hard in Italy. Through picnics and drawing room conversations, Harriet once again advanced her career." (Culkin 63)
"In Field's case, as in most other instances of the networking Cushman initiated, it was the emotional support even more than the material support of letters of introduction, help in finding studios and apartments, access to source of patronage, that ripped the balance in the careers of the women Cushman befriended. Her model of a woman who exercised power over others through art captivated and encouraged them" (Parrott 329)
Field's "first venture into journalism was her travel letters in the Boston Courier. (Travel letters were a popular feature of most American newspapers.) From 1860 to 1865, KF kept a scrapbook of her travel letters from Italy, as well as those from New York and Newport, which were published in the Weekly Picayune, the Boston Transcript, the Massachusetts Springfield Republican, and the weekly Boston Commonwealth. The scrapbook of 143 pages in now in BPL [Boston Public Library]." (Moss 15, n. 1)
"[Kate Field] would soon return to America, where her contributions to the Atlantic Monthly and other interests she shared with Annie (including Charles Dickens and a new women's club) would eventuate in invitations to Charles Street and lively exchanges of letters, though never intimacy." (Gollin 29)
"In Field's case, as in most other instances of the networking Cushman initiated, it was the emotional support even more than the material support of letters of introduction, help in finding studios and apartments, access to source of patronage, that ripped the balance in the careers of the women Cushman befriended. Her model of a woman who exercised power over others through art captivated and encouraged them" (Parrott 329)
Field's "first venture into journalism was her travel letters in the Boston Courier. (Travel letters were a popular feature of most American newspapers.) From 1860 to 1865, KF kept a scrapbook of her travel letters from Italy, as well as those from New York and Newport, which were published in the Weekly Picayune, the Boston Transcript, the Massachusetts Springfield Republican, and the weekly Boston Commonwealth. The scrapbook of 143 pages in now in BPL [Boston Public Library]." (Moss 15, n. 1)
"[Kate Field] would soon return to America, where her contributions to the Atlantic Monthly and other interests she shared with Annie (including Charles Dickens and a new women's club) would eventuate in invitations to Charles Street and lively exchanges of letters, though never intimacy." (Gollin 29)
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Collection
Citation
“Kate Field,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 18, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/85.