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Cora Crane

American businesswoman, nightclub and bordello owner, writer and journalist (1865-1910) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 45

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

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She 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 (1900) between the British and the Ashanti Empire in present-day Ghana.

Country
United States
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1865 to 1910 · aged 45