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Louise Bryant

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 8, 2018 by Wehwalt (talk) 17:49, 11 February 2018 (UTC)



Louise Bryant (1885–1936) was an American feminist, political activist, and journalist best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. She grew up in rural Nevada, graduating with a degree in history in 1909. She became society editor of the Spectator and freelanced for The Oregonian. Leaving her first husband in 1915, she followed John Reed to Greenwich Village, where she formed friendships with leading feminists of the day. Like Reed, she had lovers outside of marriage, including playwright Eugene O'Neill and painter Andrew Dasburg. Her news stories, distributed by Hearst during and after her trips to Petrograd and Moscow, appeared in newspapers across the United States and Canada in the years immediately following World War I. She wrote about Russian leaders such as Katherine Breshkovsky, Maria Spiridonova, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. A collection of articles was published as a book in 1918, Six Red Months in Russia. After Reed's death in 1920, Bryant continued to write for Hearst about Russia as well as Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and others. She died in Paris. A group from Portland restored her neglected grave in Versailles in 1998.
 * Most recent similar article(s): no recent feminist
 * Main editors: Finetooth
 * Promoted: August 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: A feminist and international journalist seems a good choice for IWD.
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support we need more representation of this topic.Iry-Hor (talk) 10:49, 28 January 2018 (UTC)