link of the day: how toronto's kit coleman blazed a trail for female war correspondents

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Publicity photo of Kit Coleman, c. 1894. Library and Archives Canada.

This time around, for International Women's Day, I look at Kit Coleman, Canada's first officially-accredited war correspondent, and her coverage of the Spanish-American War in Cuba for the Mail and Empire in 1898. 

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