Laura Carter Holloway
Laura Carter Holloway Langford (August 22, 1843 – July 10, 1930) was an American journalist, author, and lecturer from New York. She worked as a reporter and editor for the Brooklyn Eagle and published several books, notably The Ladies of the White House (1870), a group biography of the First Ladies of the United States that became a bestseller with 150,000 copies sold worldwide. A spiritualist, suffragist, and progressive who joined the Theosophical Society in the 1870s and held an array of radical and alternative beliefs, Holloway was a lifelong friend of Anna White of the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society.[1][2][3][4]
Laura Carter Holloway | |
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| Born | Laura Carter August 22, 1843 |
| Died | July 10, 1930 (aged 86) Canaan, New York, US |
| Other names | Laura Carter Holloway Langford |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, lecturer |
| Employer | Brooklyn Eagle |
| Notable work | The Ladies of the White House (1870 nonfiction bestseller) |
| Relatives | Vaulx Carter (brother) |
Holloway's papers are held in the Edward Deming Andrews Shaker Memorial Collection at the Winterthur Library.[5]
References
- Sasson, Diane (2007-10-01). "'Dear Friend and Sister': Laura Holloway-Langford and the Shakers". American Communal Societies Quarterly. 1 (4): 170–190. ISSN 1939-473X.
- Sasson, Diane (2012). Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00177-1.
- Keenan, Claudia J. (2017-10-08). "Langford, Laura Carter Holloway". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1887). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton and Company. p. 238.
- "Holloway, Laura C. (Laura Carter), 1848–1930". Winterthur Library. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
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