12 Facts About Mildred Seydell

Mildred Seydell founded the Mildred Seydell Publishing Company, and was a regular on the lecture circuit.

Mildred Seydell's parents were Vasser Woolley, an attorney and businessman from Atlanta, and Bessie Cobb Rutherford, the daughter of Colonel John Cobb Rutherford, who was an attorney.

Mildred Seydell attended the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia, an institute that her great aunt and namesake was quite involved in before her death, but Mildred Seydell soon left in order to attend the Sorbonne.

Mildred Seydell was affiliated with the Atlanta Georgian, one of William Randolph Hearst's string of newspapers, working there from 1926 until its closing in 1938.

Mildred Seydell reported on the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.

Mildred Seydell interviewed Harold E "Red" Grange, and was pictured doing his hand reading, a technique she used to "break the ice" with an interview subject.

Mildred Seydell was quoted as having once opined that she "much preferred to set the stage for adventure rather than the table for dinner".

Mildred Seydell's interviews appeared in her column, Talks with Celebrities, which was carried in 27 Hearst papers and the Universal News Service.

Mildred Seydell became intertwined with the National Woman's Party and the struggle for equal rights following the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Mildred Seydell was active in the Federation of American Women's Club Overseas and the American Woman's Club of Brussels.

Mildred Seydell was an accomplished traveler, having gone to at least 52 "far lands during her career".

Mildred Seydell wrote and planned to publish her autobiography The Record on the Wall.