Laura Carter Holloway Langford (August 22, 1843 – July 10, 1930) was an American journalist, author, and lecturer from
New York
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Film and television
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. She worked as a reporter and editor for the ''
Brooklyn Eagle
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The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''King ...
'' 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
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The ''long nineteenth century'' i ...
,
suffragist, and
progressive
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Politics
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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.
Holloway's papers are held in the
Edward Deming Andrews Shaker Memorial Collection at the
Winterthur Library.
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1843 births
1930 deaths
Writers from Nashville, Tennessee
American women journalists
20th-century American journalists
19th-century American journalists
Journalists from New York City
American women essayists
American biographers
American women non-fiction writers
American Theosophists
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