1. Kate Field took public stances on controversial topics: opposing the Statue of Liberty as a poor use for an island, opposing the prohibition of alcohol, supporting the wine industry, for female clothing reform, opposing the immigration of "scum".
Kate Field believed the US was the best country in the world, and its people the most civilized.
Kate Field was a unique figure in the history of American journalism.
Kate Field wrote from Washington, DC, New York City, and Europe.
Kate Field was one of the few successful paragraphists, and her criticisms of art, music, and the drama, were just.
Kate Field was both editor and publisher of her newsmagazine, Kate Field's Washington.
In 1839, the family moved to New Orleans, where Kate Field's father worked for the New Orleans Picayune and a local theater company.
Kate Field was a precocious child who showed an early interest in literature.
Kate Field published her first poem, "A Child's Muse", at nine years old in her father's newspaper in St Louis.
Kate Field spent time in Florence, Italy, studying voice, and there she began writing for American newspapers.
In 1871, Kate Field embarked on a lecture tour throughout New England and upstate New York.
Kate Field continued lecturing into the Midwestern states, mostly stopping in small towns and rural areas.
In 1874, Kate Field appeared as Peg Woffington at Booth's Theatre, New York City.
Kate Field afterward abandoned the regular comedy for dance, song, and recitation, but achieved no striking success.
Twenty-four of his letters to Kate Field survive and are now housed at the Boston Public Library; hers to Trollope do not.
Kate Field turned her experiences into a lecture, "Out in the Woods" or "Among the Adirondacks," which she delivered dozens of times between 1869 and 1871.
Kate Field ended the lecture with a description of finding, in remote North Elba, New York, the farm that had been abolitionist John Brown's, and a plea for its preservation.
Kate Field attempted to purchase the nearby summit of Mount Marcy in 1870, but its owners refused a deal.
Kate Field worked toward creation of forest parks both in the Adirondacks and Yosemite.