D.W. GRIFFITH AND THE GISH GIRLS
Christine Chambers discusses her famous grandmother Kate Carew:
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Mary Williams (pseudonym "Kate Carew") was born in 1869 in Oakland, CA. Daughter of Robert Neil Williams, a mining engineer, Mary attended San Francisco School of Design. In 1889 she worked as one of seventeen staff illustrators for the San Francisco Examiner. By 1890 she and her husband Harrie Kellett Chambers had moved to New York where Mary landed a position with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World providing illustrated interviews with caricatures of the rich and famous which she signed "Kate Carew." In 1901 Pulitzer sent her to Europe for a series of interviews titled "Kate Carew Abroad." Read more here
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