31 Facts About Cora Crane

Cora Crane, born Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth was an American businesswoman, nightclub and bordello owner, writer and journalist.

Cora Crane is best known as the common-law wife of writer Stephen Crane from 1896 to his death in 1900, and took his name although they never married.

Cora Crane was still legally married to her second husband, Captain Donald William Stewart, a British military officer who had served in India and then as British Resident of the Gold Coast, where he was a key figure in the War of the Golden Stool between the British and the Ashanti Empire in present-day Ghana.

Crane accompanied Stephen Crane to Greece during the Greco-Turkish War, where she was a war correspondent.

Cora Crane is sometimes reported as the first recognized woman war correspondent, but Jane Cazneau covered the Mexican–American War fifty years earlier.

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Cora Crane Ethel Eaton Howarth was born July 12,1868, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Howarth, a portrait painter, and Elizabeth Holder.

Cora Crane was educated to lead a life of refinement, socialized with the well-educated of Boston, and gained recognition for her talent in short story writing.

Cora Crane moved to New York City, where she had a series of adventures and misadventures.

Cora Crane was the son of Thomas Murphy, the former Collector of the Port of New York and a New York state politician.

The younger Murphy and Cora Crane went into business, running munitions and a gambling house.

Cora Crane moved with him to England, where she cut a social swath after the fashion of fellow American Jennie Jerome, who had married Lord Randolph Churchill in 1874.

Cora Crane soon became involved in a highly publicized affair with the heir of the Chase Bank fortune.

Cora Crane later resettled in Jacksonville, Florida, where she became involved with the writer Stephen Crane.

Cora Crane felt she had made a fool of him, when in terms of his society, he had married below his station with her.

Cora Crane traveled with her lover on his yacht to the United States; following an argument while they were anchored off Jacksonville, Florida, she swam ashore in her shift.

Cora Crane was in Jacksonville en route to Cuba to cover the Spanish–American War.

Cora Crane was known for his popular book, The Red Badge of Courage, a novel based in the Civil War.

The couple could not marry, but Cora Crane took his surname, and they were together until his death from tuberculosis in 1900.

Cora Crane became known as the first female war correspondent when she traveled with Stephen to Greece to cover the Greco-Turkish War for the New York press.

Cora Crane was notorious in society due to her status as Mrs Stewart.

Cora Crane cared for Lyon's illegitimate children at her home of Brede Place while their mother was in jail.

Joseph Conrad said that Cora Crane was "the only Christian in sight" because of her actions during these events.

Cora Crane died there on June 5,1900, of tuberculosis; he was 28.

Cora Crane arranged for the return of his body to the United States and burial in his home state of New Jersey.

In 1901 Cora Crane returned to Jacksonville while much of downtown was still in ruins following the Great Fire.

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Cora Crane found financing and built what became a signature brothel in the LaVilla District.

Cora Crane was working for her as the manager of The Annex, a bar she partially owned at the Everett Hotel.

Cora Crane became a regular contributor of articles to leading publications of the country, including Smart Set and Harpers Weekly.

Cora Crane had been planning to return to Europe for its atmosphere and take up her writing again there.

Cora Crane returned to her house and died there on September 5,1910, aged 45.

Cora Crane is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida.