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The Grande Dame
Picanine poet paved the way in newspaper business
by Dan A. Barber
Eliza Jane Poitevent, bom March 11, 1843 in the Pearl River hamlet of Pearlington, became a poetess, writer and the first woman to successfully own and operate a major metropolitan newspaper in the United States.
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