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About Pearl Rivers
Pearl Rivers was an American journalist and poet, and the first female editor of a major American newspaper. After being the literary editor of the New Orleans Daily Picayune, Rivers became the owner and publisher in 1876, after her elderly husband died. In 1880, she took over as managing editor, where she continued until her death in 1896.
Everything about Pearl Rivers →- Occupation
- publisher, poet, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 11, 1843, 1849
- Died
- February 15, 1896