Molly Mcclain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer who used her fortune to support women\'s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education.
She also coedits the Journal of San Diego History..
She is the author of Beaufort: The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715 and Schaum\'s Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays.
Molly Mcclain is a professor of history at the University of San Diego.
In Ellen Browning Scripps Mcclain brings to life an extraordinary woman who played a vital role in the history of women, California, and the American West.
She also provided major financial support to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and public education.
She established the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont, California.
By the 1920s Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million, most of which she gave away.
Less well known today than the papers started by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, Scripps newspapers transformed their owners into millionaires almost overnight.
Scripps built America\'s largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West.
She and her brother E.
W.
She went from rags to riches, living out that cherished American story in which people pull themselves up by their bootstraps with audacity, hard work, and luck.
Born in London, Scripps grew up in rural poverty on the Illinois prairie.
Molly Mcclain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer who used her fortune to support women\'s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education
