And I have been writing something Which will likely enough be read By our children's children After we all are dead; And must I think I should have been washing dishes instead? --Lula Green Richards (excerpt from An Apology)
About Lula Green Richards (1849-1944) Born in Kanesville Iowa during a choldera outbreak, Louisa Lula Greene Richards survived two nearly fatal accidents as a child and grew up to become the first woman journalist in Utah. Her family arrived in Salt Lake City in 1852, after Brigham Young ordered the evacuation of Kanesville, and they eventually settled in Cache County. At age aeighteen she and her sister Lissa opened a small school, but Louisa was frustrated by her impatiance with the students and by hr lack of formal education. It was her desire for learning that in 1869 took her back to school in Salkt Lake City, and there her talents as a write began to develop. Her personal initirative and skill with the pen caught the attention of Edward Sloan, editor of the Herald, and in 1872 he selected her to be the editor of a new newspaper, the Woman's Exponent. For the next five years her editorials argued for the right of women to vote, to obtain an equaleducation, and to choose their occupation.
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About Lula Green Richards (1849-1944)
Born in Kanesville Iowa during a choldera outbreak, Louisa Lula Greene Richards survived two nearly fatal accidents as a child and grew up to become the first woman journalist in Utah. Her family arrived in Salt Lake City in 1852, after Brigham Young ordered the evacuation of Kanesville, and they eventually settled in Cache County. At age aeighteen she and her sister Lissa opened a small school, but Louisa was frustrated by her impatiance with the students and by hr lack of formal education. It was her desire for learning that in 1869 took her back to school in Salkt Lake City, and there her talents as a write began to develop. Her personal initirative and skill with the pen caught the attention of Edward Sloan, editor of the Herald, and in 1872 he selected her to be the editor of a new newspaper, the Woman's Exponent. For the next five years her editorials argued for the right of women to vote, to obtain an equaleducation, and to choose their occupation.
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