Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant

Jane Grant Illustrations

Her meager income meant Grant could not have afforded to buy the elegant clothes she wears in this New York studio photographer’s portrait of her at about age twenty, yet she looks comfortable and confident. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 177 Grant thought everything about her YMCA service uniform was ugly—including its olive-green color— but that didn’t prevent her from attracting many suitors when she wore it while serving as a World War I volunteer in France. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 178 Private Harold Ross in his World War I army uniform. Although he enlisted in the engineering corps, he joined the staff of the Stars and Stripes soon after it was launched in February 1918, and was named managing editor nine months later. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 179 Grant with Alexander Woollcott in Belleau Wood, France. Soon after the United States entered World War I Woollcott took a leave from his New York Times drama critic position to join the army. He was sent to France, where he much enjoyed visiting with Ruth Hale and Heywood Broun in 1917, and introduced Grant to Ross at a Paris poker game in 1918. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 180 Grant and Ross on a New Jersey outing not long after they married in March 1920. They initially kept their marriage a secret, living with roommates in separate apartments and taking weekend excursions together. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 181 Grant and Ross stand by a wall of their West Forty-Seventh Street brownstone . Despite its Hell’s Kitchen location and adjacent tenement house, “the cream of New York drew up at the door,” playwright and novelist Edna Ferber recalled. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 182 In 1926 celebrity photographer Nickolas Muray posed Grant and Ross in old-fashioned daguerreotype style. The couple’s body language and facial expressions say something about the toll that publishing the nascent New Yorker had taken on their marriage. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 183 Grant looks content in this photograph, probably taken in the mid- to late 1930s. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 184 Grant at her desk in her home office during the 1940s. This was her favorite portrait of herself. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 185 Taken around 1970 in their Litchfield home next to White Flower Farm, this photograph of Grant and William Harris captures their happy, egalitarian relationship, which lasted more than thirty years. Jane Grant Papers, Ph141, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon. 186 ...