Sylvia Field Porter
Sylvia Field Porter · Arts & Literature
The first woman on the financial desk of a big-city newspaper and the first woman to break into the world of writing about finance, Sylvia Field Porter was a pioneering economist, columnist, and best-selling author.
18 June 1913
Sylvia Field Porter is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — The first woman on the financial desk of a big-city newspaper and the first woman to break into the world of writing about finance, Sylvia Field Porter was a pioneering economist, columnist, and best-selling author.
The first woman on the financial desk of a big-city newspaper and the first woman to break into the world of writing about finance, Sylvia Field Porter was a pioneering economist, columnist, and best-selling author. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Peggy K. Pearlstein, and the entry is linked below.
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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Peggy K. Pearlstein
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The first woman on the financial desk of a big-city newspaper and the first woman to break into the world of writing about finance, Sylvia Field Porter was a pioneering economist, columnist, and best-selling author.
Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Peggy K. Pearlstein
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