Emma Bullet (1842 – January 31, 1914) was a French-born American journalist, the Paris correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for 32 years. She also taught school in Ohio, and was a canteen worker during the Franco-Prussian War.
Emma Bullet | |
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 Emma Bullet, from a 1906 publication | |
| Born | 1842 Belfort, France |
| Died | January 31, 1914 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, foreign correspondent, canteen worker, educator |
| Relatives | Henry Edward Krehbiel (brother-in-law) |
Early life and education
editBullet was born in Belfort, France and moved the United States at age 7. Her mother was a French teacher.[1]
Career
editBullet taught French at the Ohio Female College in Cincinnati and at a school in Paris as a young woman.[1] She and her mother ran a "coffee shack" on Montmartre during the Franco-Prussian War.[2]
From 1879 to 1882 Bullet wrote for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.[1] In 1882 she became the "graphic, unconventional, breezy" Paris correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[3] a role she held for 32 years.[4] She reported on Parisian fashion,[5] and from Queen Victoria's jubilee in London in 1897.[6] She interviewed William Jennings Bryan in 1906.[7] In 1907, the newspaper published her autobiography in serial format,[8] and in 1908 published it as a special pamphlet, in observance of her 30th year as their Paris correspondent,[9] and she was honored at a dinner in Brooklyn by her colleagues at the Eagle.[10] She was a member of the Paris Press Club.[11]
Bullet's home in Paris was described as a weekly "salon" frequented by "the leaders in the world of literature, art, and music in Paris", especially Americans such as sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies and opera singer Emma Nevada.[11] She was "one of the best known and most representative of American women in Paris," according to an 1893 profile.[12]
Publications
editPersonal life
editBullet was in the United States for several months in 1908, and stayed with her sister Marie in Maine, New York, and Ohio.[9][15] Her sister was married to music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel.[1][16] She died in 1914, at her home in Paris, in her seventies.[1][17] "She combined an understanding of America and the Americans with a sureness and keenness of perception which made her letters from the French capital authoritative, comprehensive and interesting," commented the Brooklyn Times at the time of her death.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Miss Emma Bullet Dies in Paris Home; Was for Thirty-two Years the Eagle's Correspondent". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1914-01-31. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hickok, Guy (1931-04-15). "Last Commune Shot Aided by American; Heroism of Late Emma Bullet". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Donohoe, Madge. "The American Woman in Paris II" The Strand 32(190)(November 1906): 380.
- ^ "Miss Bullet's Anniversary; Sonnet Celebrates her 25 Years of Work as Eagle's Paris Correspondent". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-11-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "By the Evening Lamp". The Buffalo Commercial. 1895-05-30. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Bathing in Hyde Park". Brooklyn Life. 1897-07-17. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mr. Bryan in Paris; Emma Bullet Has an Interesting Talk with the Nebraskan". Record-Journal. 1906-08-30. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Autobiography of Emma Bullet IV". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1907-02-17. p. 23. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Miss Emma Bullet; The Correspondent of the Eagle in Paris, Visiting Friends in Ohio". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-10-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dinner to Miss Bullet". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-12-10. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Salon Attendants Mourn Miss Bullet". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1914-02-01. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Waterbury, Jennie Bullard (1893-05-13). "Miss Emma Bullet". Brooklyn Life. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Emma Bullet's Budget from Paris". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1900-12-02. p. 27. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bullet, Emma (1911-10-26). "A Letter from Abroad". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 69. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Emma Bullet in America". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-07-13. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Aldrich, Richard (1923). "Henry Edward Krehbiel". Music & Letters. 4 (3): 266–268. ISSN 0027-4224. JSTOR 726960.
- ^ "Paris Correspondent Dies; Emma Bullet, Noted Newspaper Woman and War Nurse, Stricken". The Minneapolis Journal. 1914-02-01. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.