Jennie Irene Mix

Jennie Irene Mix
Mix, from her 1925 obituary in Radio Broadcast magazine
Mix, from her 1925 obituary in Radio Broadcast magazine
Born1862 (1862)
Cleveland, Ohio
DiedApril 26, 1925(1925-04-26) (aged 62–63)
Toledo, Ohio
Occupation
  • Music critic
  • journalist
  • novelist
  • editor
Notable worksAt Fame's Gateway, Mighty Animals

Jennie Irene Mix (1862–1925)[1] was a music critic, journalist, novelist, and editor.

Early life

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She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Lorenzo Dow Mix and Jane Sylvia Gardner.[2] She studied classical music in Cleveland, New York, and Germany,[3] and then pursued a career in journalism.

Career

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Page 63 from Jennie Irene Mix's book Mighty Animals.
Page 63 from Mix's book Mighty Animals
Page 78 of Jennie Irene Mix's Mighty Animals.
Page 78 of Mix's Mighty Animals

She was a trained classical pianist, and later worked as a music critic for the Toledo Times[4] and book review editor and critic for the Pittsburgh Post.[5] During the 1920s when radio was reaching broad popularity, she was one of only a few female editors covering radio in journalism, working as an editor at Radio Broadcast (Magazine) from 1924 until her death in April 1925.[6] She authored a column entitled "The Listeners' Point of View" in Radio Broadcast that discussed radio broadcast programs, especially relating to music.

Mix also wrote books on several topics, including a popular novel, At Fame's Gateway; the Romance of a Pianiste, Mighty Animals: Being Short Talks About Some of the Animals Which Lived on This Earth Before Man Appeared,[7] and Great Pictures and Their Painters: A Series of Articles on Some of the Medici Prints Owned by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.[8]

Mighty Animals was an apparent departure from previous writing topics. It was one of the first texts on paleontology written for children. It includes a foreword by the director of the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Frederic Lucas. The book discusses various types of extinct animals (primarily dinosaurs), how fossils are formed, and how field work is conducted, and contains numerous illustrations and photographs.[9]

Death

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Jennie Irene Mix died on April 26, 1925, in Toledo, Ohio.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Ancestry Library Edition". search.ancestrylibrary.com. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  2. ^ "Ancestry Library Edition". www.ancestrylibrary.com. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  3. ^ International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.
  4. ^ Keith, Michael C. (2008). Radio Cultures: The Sound Medium in American Life. Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820486482.
  5. ^ The Music Magazine-musical Courier. 1920.
  6. ^ a b "The Listener's Point of View" (PDF). Radio Broadcast. July 1925: 343.
  7. ^ Mighty Animals: Being Short Talks About Some of the Animals Which Lived on This Earth Before Man Appeared
  8. ^ Mix, Jennie Irene (1910). Great pictures and their painters: a series of articles on some of the Medici prints owned by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. OCLC 649428722.
  9. ^ "The Book Arts Press Exhibitions Program". rarebookschool.org. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
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