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Beatty married actor William Sauter in 1926. The lived in Los Angeles, and later in New York City. Their wire-haired terriers, Biddy and Terry, were frequently mentioned on Miss Beatty's radio program, and even received fan mail. Beatty died suddenly by heart attack in April 1947, age 61. There was
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she used her show to sell over $ 300,000 in war bonds, and was recognized by the Women's International Exposition of Arts and Industries with their annual radio award in 1943.
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Morgan Flake, "Bessie Beatty: An Exhibition of Twentieth-Century Oxy Alumna and Journalist Bessie Beatty," Occidental College Special Collections & College Archives 2011.
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Bessie Beatty memorial program, broadcast April 7, 1947 (Washington DC: Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory 2002).
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from 1907 to 1917, called "On the Margin." While on assignment covering a miners' strike in Nevada, she wrote and published
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Lisa M. Jankoski, "Bessie Beatty: One Woman's View of the Russian Revolution" (MA thesis, Villanova University 1989).
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Bessie Beatty, "A Political Primer for the New Voter" (San Francisco: Whittaker and Ray-Wiggin Co. 1912).
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America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars
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Who's who in Nevada : Brief sketches of men who are making history in the Sagebrush state
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The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gillman: Sexualities, Histories, and Progressivism
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Beatty worked as a freelance journalist for much of her career. She was editor of
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Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present
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Katherine Burger Johnson, "Bessie Beatty," in Bernard A. Cook, ed.,
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Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
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As an activist, she was a member of the feminist group
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from 1918 to 1921. She was American Secretary of the
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Elizabeth Mary "Bessie" Beatty was born and raised in
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Bessie Beatty in 1927
Occidental College
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Red Cross
Occidental College
Los Angeles Herald
San Francisco Bulletin
Rheta Childe Dorr
Albert Rhys Williams
Louise Bryant
John Reed
Russia
Leon Trotsky
Women's Battalion
McCall's Magazine
International P. E. N. Club
Jack Black
Broadway
New York City
Time
World War II
Heterodoxy
suffrage
"Bessie Beatty, 61, Commentator, Dies; Ex-Editor Broadcast Women's Program on WOR--Former Foreign Correspondent," New York Times (April 7, 1947): 23.
"Red Cross Benefit: Children to Present Tableaux at Long Beach for the Cause," Los Angeles Times (August 12, 1898): 6.
Morgan Flake, "Bessie Beatty: An Exhibition of Twentieth-Century Oxy Alumna and Journalist Bessie Beatty," Occidental College Special Collections & College Archives 2011.
"Sob Sister Now Famous: Bessie Beatty was Under Rifle Fire; Was War Correspondent and Magazine Editor," Los Angeles Times (October 8, 1922): III33.
"Patrick Golden, "Bessie Beatty," Editor's Notes, Emma Goldman Papers online"
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