Florence MacLeod Harper was a Canadian journalist from Woodstock, Ontario sent by U.S. newspaper Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as a staff reporter with an assignment to cover World War I on the Eastern front. She was an early female war correspondent and one of a handful of western journalists to leave a first-hand journalistic account of the early stages of the Russian revolution.[1]
Unusually independent for a female journalist of the time, unusual altogether as a female war correspondent, she was a trailblazer for better-known female war correspondents covering later conflicts. Harper arrived in St. Petersburg via Siberia on a long slow and dirty train.[2] Dividing her time between staff hospitals on the front line and St. Petersburg,[1] she witnessed first hand the February revolution in St. Petersburg in 1917 and later events in July, before leaving for the U.K. in August, departing on the same boat as Emmeline Pankhurst.[3]
With war photographer Donald C. Thomson she created the photo book Bloodstained Russia[4] and From Tsar to Kaiser: The betrayal of Russia.[5] In 1918 she published Runaway Russia, describing events at greater length.[6][7] After leaving Russia, she continued to report on the effects of the Revolution from Finland.[8]
Her testimony has been widely quoted in several later works covering the early stages of the revolution, for instance in Caught in the revolution by Helen Rappaport,[9] but she is less well known than other trailblazing female journalists of the time, such as Louise Bryant who covered the October Revolution of the same year but who was arguably less independent, traveling out with her husband John Reed and arriving at around the time Harper was leaving St. Petersburg.
By her own account, Harper saw early on that revolution was inevitable. "In fact, I was so sure of it," Harper later wrote, "that I wandered around the town, up and down the Nevsky, watching and waiting for it as I would for a circus parade."[10]
Referencesedit
^ abDesign, Pallasart Web. "Blood Stained Russia - pictures from a 1918 book by Captain Donald C. Thompson". www.alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
^Englund, Will (2017-03-07). March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN9780393292091.
^Rappaport, Helen (2016-08-25). Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917. Hutchinson. ISBN9780091958954.
^"RUSSIA'S REVOLUTIONARY SOURCES. PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND NARRATIVES. "An Album of Revolution, Part I."". blogs.miamioh.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
^"From Czar to Kaiser, the Betrayal of Russia". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
^The American Review of Reviews. Review of Reviews. 1919. p. 219.
^macleod, harper, florence. "The price of Bolshevism in Finland / photographs from Florence Harper, Leslie's staff correspondent". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-05-23.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Hobson, Charlotte (2016-09-10). "Champagne and revolution in Petrograd, 1917 | The Spectator". The Spectator. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
^Matthews, Owen (2017-02-24). "In a New History, Russia's Revolution Through Expat Eyes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
March 06, 2024
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