Mary Louise Booth
Mary Louise Booth was born on April 19, 1831. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Mary Louise Booth
Mary Louise Booth (April 19, 1831 – March 5, 1889) was an American editor, translator, and writer. She was the first editor-in-chief of the women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar. At the age of eighteen, Booth left the family home for New York City to Manhattan and learned the trade of a vest-maker. Booth contributed tales and sketches to various newspapers and magazines but was not paid for them. She began to do reporting and book-reviewing for educational and literary journals, still without any pay in money, but happy at being occasionally paid in books. As time went on, she received…